Scope of this report

AngloGold Ashanti reports to a wide range of stakeholders and business partners including shareholders, employees, community members and many other interested parties in all of the countries and regions in which it operates. For this reason, our Annual Report comprises a number of documents, in different formats. Information on where to find the full suite of reports and how to use this one, the Report to Society 2007, may be found in Using this report.

The Report to Society should in itself be viewed as comprising three parts:

• The primary format of the Report is a web-based report (1), which may be accessed at www.aga-reports.com, or is available on a CD-ROM (2) on request.
• This printed version of the report (3) is provided as a summary version and excludes most of the case studies, which may be found on the website. Additional copies are available on request or the report may be downloaded as a pdf, in full or in part, from the downloads section.
• Country and operational reports (4) covering every operation within the group and providing a level of detail that is not possible in the group report. These are also available in a printed format on request or on the report website indicated above.

The group’s Annual Financial Statements (5) should be read as a complementary document and may be requested as a printed document or is available on the website at www.aga-reports.com.

The Report to Society has been prepared to reflect the operations of the AngloGold Ashanti group and its managed subsidiaries and joint ventures. Details of these may be found in the Corporate Profile. There have been no significant changes to the group other than those reported in the Economic performance section.

The report has been produced in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) G3 guidelines and in alignment with the principles of the International Council of Metals and Mining (ICMM) and the UN Global Compact. AngloGold Ashanti is a member of both these organisations.

Data measurement techniques are reported in the sections where data appears. Where there have been restatements, this has been indicated. There has not been any significant divergence from the GRI indicator protocols.

This Report to Society is produced on an annual basis for the company’s financial year, that is 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007. The previous Report to Society was published in March 2007, for the 2006 financial year. Unless otherwise stated $ refers to US dollars throughout this report.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed to provide independent assurance on key performance information reported, as described in the assurance report. AngloGold Ashanti has declared an A+ level of reporting and will seek a further review by the GRI of this declaration following the publication of the report.

The person responsible for the collation of this report, who will assist with any queries is Alan Fine, Public Affairs Manager, based at the group’s corporate head office in Johannesburg. His contact details are: +27 11 637 6000 or AFine@AngloGoldAshanti.com.

We welcome feedback on this report and its contents. An electronic feedback form is available on the company website.