Sustainability overview

AngloGold Ashanti and business sustainability

AngloGold Ashanti is committed to fulfilling its obligations and duties as a responsible corporate citizen, ensuring that its behaviour reflects its values and concern for its stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, their families and the communities and environments in which we live and work.

For AngloGold Ashanti, sustainability is important because we believe that the wellbeing of society and the natural world is critical for businesses to thrive and create value. Our vision is to be the leading mining company, and we will only achieve this vision if we can prove our ability to operate sensitively to and with our host communities, demonstrating that we will partner with them to create enduring value.

Sustainability focus areas for the business include safety, health, community relationships, human rights and environmental and natural resource stewardship. We need to be mindful of these issues during the full lifecycle of our operations, to ensure orderly closure of our operations and that we leave communities better off for our presence.

» Further information may be found in the 2010 sustainability report and supplementary information