ANGLO AMERICAN PLC - Anglo American makes significant progress towards GISTM conformance

Anglo American makes significant progress towards GISTM conformance

Anglo American plc (the "Company")
Registered office: 17 Charterhouse Street, London EC1N 6RA
Registered number: 3564138 (incorporated in England and Wales)
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43
ISIN: GBOOB1XZS820
JSE Share Code: AGL
NSX Share Code: ANM

4 August 2023

Anglo American makes significant progress towards GISTM conformance

Anglo American plc ("Anglo American") has set out its significant progress towards bringing its 12 tailings
storage facilities (TSFs) that are currently within the two highest potential consequence categories into
conformance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM).

The GISTM is the first global standard on tailings facility management and sets a purposely high bar for
the mining industry to attain – integrating social, environmental, local economic and technical
considerations for every facility, towards the goal of zero harm to people and the environment.

Duncan Wanblad, Chief Executive of Anglo American, said: "We have made very significant progress
towards conformance with the GISTM over the last three years, building upon our already high technical
standards. We continue our prudent approach to align with a number of specific GISTM requirements, as
well as the social and community aspects that are already encompassed in our comprehensive Social Way
management system. We are addressing the few outstanding areas and have set out the work needed to
get us there.

"As an industry, we have a clear ethical imperative to do everything possible to ensure that TSFs are
managed to the highest standards as we work together to build greater levels of trust with all our
stakeholders. GISTM's role in driving continuous improvement across the industry with full transparency
is beyond doubt."


The full reports on each of the 12 TSFs can be found on Anglo American's website at
https://www.angloamerican.com/esg-policies-and-data/tailings-summary/our-approach-to-gistm

Anglo American played an active role in the multi-stakeholder process of developing the GISTM, which
comprises six topic areas, 15 principles and 77 auditable requirements for each facility, and covers
standards and practices over the entire lifecycle of a facility.

The few remaining requirements with which Anglo American is in partial conformance largely relate to
the necessary sequencing of work and the need to carry out certain additional studies required by the
GISTM to further strengthen our understanding of the holistic environmental effects of TSFs over their
full lifecycle. Anglo American also continues to enhance the safety and resilience of its facilities through
the application of evolving best practice in relation to outcome-based principles in risk assessments.

Anglo American is continuing to work towards conformance in respect of its TSFs that are within the other
three lower consequence categories by August 2025, in line with the commitment made by all ICMM
member companies.

Anglo American is confident in the integrity of its TSFs, which comply with regulatory requirements in the
countries where they are located.

For further information, please contact:

 Media                                                       Investors

 UK                                                          UK
 James Wyatt-Tilby                                           Paul Galloway
 james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com                         paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8759                                    Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8718

 Marcelo Esquivel                                            Emma Waterworth
 marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com                          emma.waterworth@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8891                                    Tel: +44 (0) 20 7968 8574

 Rebecca Meeson–Frizelle                                     Juliet Newth
 rebecca.meeson-frizelle@angloamerican.com                   Juliet.newth@angloamerican.com
 Tel: + 44 (0)20 7968 1374                                   Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8830

 South Africa                                                Michelle Jarman
 Nevashnee Naicker                                           michelle.jarman@angloamerican.com
 nevashnee.naicker@angloamerican.com                         Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 1494
 Tel: +27 (0)11 638 3189

 Sibusiso Tshabalala
 sibusiso.tshabalala@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2175


The Company has a primary listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and secondary
listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Botswana Stock Exchange, the Namibia Stock Exchange
and the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

Anglo American plc
17 Charterhouse Street, London, EC1N 6RA, United Kingdom
Registered office as above. Incorporated in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985.
Registered Number: 3564138 Legal Entity Identifier: 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43


Notes to editors:
Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in
almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad
range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a
cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions
of consumers. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest
technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our
customers – safely and sustainably.

As a responsible producer of copper, nickel, platinum group metals, diamonds (through De Beers), and
premium quality iron ore and steelmaking coal – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed
to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan
commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating
thriving communities and building trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business
partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the
benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our
shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

www.angloamerican.com

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permitting or forcing closure of mines and ceasing of operations or maintenance of Anglo American's assets and
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American operates, conflicts over land and resource ownership rights and such other risk factors identified in Anglo
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Date: 04-08-2023 09:00:00
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