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RNS Number : 4115I  Anglo American PLC  27 March 2024

 27 March 2024
 Sishen and Kolomela mines achieve IRMA 75 performance on responsible mining
 standard

Anglo American plc notes the announcement by Kumba Iron Ore Limited released
today to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The text of the announcement is
copied below:

 

Kumba Iron Ore announces that its Sishen and Kolomela mines in South Africa
have been assessed against the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance's
(IRMA) comprehensive mining standard, achieving the IRMA 75 level of
performance. This reflects Anglo American's integrated approach to
sustainability and its commitment to transparency in striving for the highest
levels of responsible iron ore production.

 

Mpumi Zikalala, Chief Executive of Kumba Iron Ore said: "We are proud of our
teams' efforts and the outstanding progress made across both of our operations
to promote responsible mining practices. As part of our commitment to leading
in ESG practices, we are dedicated to delivering premium quality iron ore
products that help to reduce carbon emissions in the steel-making process,
while helping our customers meet the growing demand for responsibly sourced
materials in an efficient and independently verified way. Through the IRMA
assurance process, we have been able to evaluate our sustainability
performance at Sishen and Kolomela mines, identify areas for improvement and
ensure that we strive to adhere to the highest standards of responsible
mining".

 

Themba Mkhwanazi, Anglo American's Regional Director - Africa and Australia,
said: "We are pleased that Kumba is the first iron ore producer in Africa to
complete the IRMA audit, providing stakeholders with a way of accounting for
sustainability practices that is transparent, verifiable, and comparable.
Launched last year, our digital traceability platform Valutrax™ is available
to customers purchasing Anglo American mined products, helping them to trace
metals and minerals through a tailored selection of key provenance and
sustainability indicators, including third-party assurance such as IRMA. The
IRMA results demonstrate further progress on our Sustainable Mining Plan
commitment of having all our operations undergo third-party audits against
responsible mine certification standards by 2025. IRMA improves our ability to
build an understanding of areas where we can continue to improve our ESG
performance.

 

Aimee Boulanger, Executive Director of IRMA, said "Through detailed IRMA audit
reports, mining companies, communities and companies that purchase mined
materials can gain the information they need to decide what's going well - and
what may require more attention - at specific mines.  The Sishen and Kolomela
reports demonstrate that these mines can point to transparent, independent
evaluations of their environmental and social performance."

 

The IRMA scoring system recognises four levels of performance: IRMA
Transparency, in which a mine is third-party-assessed and publicly shares its
scores; IRMA 50, 75 or 100, signifying that a mine meets a core set of
critical requirements together with at least 50%, 75% or 100% of the
requirements in each of the four sections of the Standard for Responsible
Mining being met respectively.

 

IRMA's Standard for Responsible Mining has been developed over a decade
through a public consultation process with more than 100 different individuals
and organisations, including mining companies, customers and the ultimate
downstream users of mined products, NGOs, labour unions, and communities and
is considered to be one of the most rigorous certification processes.

 

The link to the assessment of Kumba's mines can be found on IRMA's website at:
https://responsiblemining.net/.

 

The release of the IRMA reports for Kolomela and Sishen builds on those
already completed for other Anglo American operations, as follows:

 

 Product   Site                        IRMA Achievement Level
 Iron Ore  Kolomela (South Africa)     IRMA75

           Minas Rio (Brazil)          IRMA75

           Sishen (South Africa)       IRMA75
 Nickel    Barro Alto (Brazil)         IRMA75
 PGMs      Amandelbult (South Africa)  IRMA50

           Mototolo(South Africa)      IRMA75

           Unki (Zimbabwe)             IRMA75

 

 

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