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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 CONTENTS HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THIS REPORT This is an interactive PDF. Navigation tools are available at the top left of each page and throughout the report. Click on: Additional Glossary Contents page Print Previous page Next page Undo Search Website Email Download Page reference content of terms SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 1 WHO WE ARE To create value for our shareholders, our employees and our business and social partners through safely and responsibly exploring, mining and marketing our products. Our primary focus is gold, but we will pursue value creating opportunities in other minerals OUR where we can leverage our OUR existing assets, skills and VISION experience to enhance the VALUES delivery of value. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 2 WHO WE ARE (CONTINUED) TEGIC TRA FOC E S US R Improve portfolio quality A O R C E Headquartered in Johannesburg, R A South Africa, AngloGold Ashanti has a U capital expenditure S O Optimise overhead, costs and globally diverse, world-class portfolio of operations and projects. Supporting our strategy for ngloGold Ashanti is the third-largest gold Ensure financial flexibility sustainable mining company in the world, measured cash flow A by production. It has 17 gold mines in improvements and returns nine countries, as well as several exploration programmes in both the established and new gold producing regions of the world. Maintain long-term optionality Focus on people, safety and sustainability OUR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES Focus on people, safety Ensure financial Optimise overhead, costs Improve portfolio Maintain long-term and sustainability flexibility and capital expenditure quality optionality • Focus on people, safety and • Ensure financial flexibility: the • Optimise overhead, costs • Improve portfolio quality: we • Maintain long-term sustainability: our business balance sheet is the foundation and capital expenditure: all have a portfolio of assets that optionality: while we are must operate according to of our company and we must spending decisions must be must be actively managed as we focused on ensuring the most our values if it is to remain ensure it always remains able to checked and double checked strive for a competitive valuation efficient day-to-day operation sustainable in the long term. meet our core funding needs. to ensure they are necessary to as a business. of our business we must fulfill our core business objective. keep an eye on creating a competitive pipeline of long-term opportunities. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 3 WHO WE ARE (CONTINUED) PERFORMANCE SNAPSHOT 52,649 3.6Moz $4.3bn $4.3bn 3.6Moz $4.1bn employees gold produced revenue market total gold sales annual gold income (2015: 52,266) (2015: 3.9Moz) (2015: $4.2bn) capitalisation (2015: 3.9Moz) (2015: $4.2bn) (2015: $2.9bn) SHAREHOLDING interest in the Cerro Vanguardia operation. In Economic value addition to its mining operations, AngloGold AngloGold Ashanti’s primary listing is on the Ashanti holds a shareholding of 42.4% in Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in South distributed Rand Refinery (Pty) Limited, a gold smelting Africa. The company is also listed on the New York, Australia and Ghana stock exchanges. and refining business in South Africa, and wholly owns and operates the Queiroz $3.4bn The Government of Ghana retains a 1.56% refinery in Brazil. of this $1.1 billion was paid interest in the company. The respective to employees as salaries and The annual financial statements of the group national governments hold direct interests wages and $20.2 million spent on incorporate the financial statements of the in our operating subsidiary in Guinea and community and social investments joint ventures in the Democratic Republic company, material subsidiaries and joint of the Congo (DRC) and Mali. In Argentina, ventures and associates. A list of principal Fomicruz, a state owned company operating subsidiaries and operating entities is included in the province of Santa Cruz, owns a 7.5% in the Annual Financial Statements 2016. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 4 ABOUT THIS REPORT Reporting boundaries and scope / 6 Selecting our report content / 7 Reporting assurance / 8 This report presents information on our sustainable development ARTICULATING OUR PERFORMANCE performance in 2016. in a transparent and accountable way SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 5 REPORTING BOUNDARIES AND SCOPE Our reporting boundary is the in Mali or Kibali in the Democratic Republic AngloGold Ashanti is a signatory of the description of where impacts occur of the Congo (DRC), which are managed and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) operated by our joint venture partner Randgold and this report serves as the 2016 for each issue during the 2016 Resources Limited. Communication on Progress (COP). It is also reporting period. aligned with the Sustainable Development Framework of the International Council CONTROL on Mining and Metals (ICMM), of which he AngloGold Ashanti Sustainable By control we mean we own the assets AngloGold Ashanti is a member. The section Development Report 2016 seeks to and engage or employ the workforce. T present detailed information on our on External Charters provides additional sustainable development performance from detail of compliance with other frameworks, operations within our reporting boundary. including voluntary memberships. SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE In setting our reporting boundary, we have By significant influence we mean we considered impacts which result from operate the asset under a contractual SUPPORTING operations within AngloGold Ashanti and its obligation to the owners. DOCUMENTS associated companies, as well as impacts on the company from external factors. While External charters we seek to establish a consistent boundary REPORTING Extractive Industries Transparency for reporting across all our sustainable Information is consolidated and reported Initiative development metrics, we do report on as AngloGold Ashanti results for assets UN Voluntary Principles on Security developments, impacts and data outside under our control. For assets where we and Human Rights our reporting boundary where these are have a significant influence, we may Sustainable Development Framework material to the business and its sustainable choose to report information externally of the International Council on Mining development performance. if it is of specific interest and applicable and Metals agreements allow. In the context of this report, “outside of the United Nations Global Compact organisation” refers to our suppliers, where we do not own the assets and do not directly Conflict-Free Gold Report engage or employ the workforce, and where we COMPLIANCE WITH do not operate the asset under a contractual REPORTING GUIDELINES GRI Content Index obligation. “Within the organisation” refers to This report has been prepared in accordance all operations and entities in which the group with the GRI G4 “Core” option. GRI’s has a controlling interest and which are under guidelines are the benchmark for sustainability our management, in terms of a contractual reporting globally. We assess what is material obligation. We therefore do not report on non- for our business and focus our reporting on financial information for either the Morila Mine these aspects. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 6 SELECTING OUR REPORT CONTENT The AngloGold Ashanti Sustainable The materiality selection process involved: the business, the set of material issues was ranked according to priority. OUR 2016 MATERIAL Development Report 2016 articulates A review of the 2015 material issues. the company’s sustainable These were reviewed to determine their The criteria for ranking the material issues development performance across current relevance within the AngloGold included the following: ISSUES Ashanti sustainable development landscape. all operating jurisdictions for the • focus during the reporting period; It emerged that the challenges identified in • relevance to the company; reporting period 1 January 2016 2015 were still relevant to the current business to 31 December 2016. context, although the key features of the • impact on achieving or maintaining our EMPLOYEE SAFETY material issues had shifted during the reporting social licence to operate; and ue to the operational complexity, year. These key features have been updated • alignment with Sustainable EMPLOYEE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH geographical diversity and size of and articulated in the introduction of each Development Goals. DAngloGold Ashanti, our content material issue in this report. A set of 10 material issues were agreed. selection processes focused on capturing and MANAGING COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS Both the material issues identified and the articulating issues of material concern that Identification of emerging issues. We AND DEMONSTRATING CONTRIBUTION final report were reviewed by the Executive effected the group during the 2016 reporting evaluated the strategic and operational risks Committee and the Social, Ethics and RESPONSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL year. This also includes a reflection of what identified by the business, including topics Sustainability Committee of the board. This STEWARDSHIP we want to achieve through our reporting and covered in sector and market reports and in was done to ascertain whether the material whom we view as our primary readers. the media. Lastly, we considered feedback issues for reporting represented a balanced from our investors and other stakeholders INTEGRATED CLOSURE PLANNING and comprehensive