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Stories
Our case studies and stories further demonstrate and bring to life our performance.
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Read more : Transformation fund supports businesses in Colombia
Transformation fund supports businesses in Colombia
At AngloGold Ashanti’s Quebradona project in Colombia, Comfenalco Antioquia and the Pro Jericó Foundation came together at the end of 2020 to offer soft loans to entrepreneurs and small business owners. The project is called the Productive Transformation Fund and is designed to support the launch and growth of small businesses.
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Read more : Iduapriem improves safety through fatigue management
Iduapriem improves safety through fatigue management
Iduapriem has introduced a successful fatigue management system to limit the health and safety risks related to fatigue. Called Smart, the system has shown an 18% increase in alertness levels among employees over a 12-month period. This improvement was seen at all hours of the day, with the most significant increase evident during the night…
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Read more : Anglogold Ashanti Ghana promotes health in the community
Anglogold Ashanti Ghana promotes health in the community
In 2021, AngloGold Ashanti held a health outreach day in the Binsere community near its Obuasi mine. The outreach day was a collaboration between AngloGold Ashanti, the AngloGold Ashanti Health Foundation and the Obuasi Municipal District and the Obuasi East District Health Directorates.
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Read more : Serra Grande achieves full conversion to filtered tailings
Serra Grande achieves full conversion to filtered tailings
In September 2021, AngloGold Ashanti’s Serra Grande mine became the first mine in Brazil to implement a 100% filtered tailings disposal system. This means that, at the end of ore processing, all the tailings generated go through a drying process after which it is placed in filtered tailings stacks. Wet tailings are no longer sent…
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Read more : Australia understands how healthy minds lead to healthy mines
Australia understands how healthy minds lead to healthy mines
As part of its well-being strategy, AngloGold Ashanti Australia partnered with Strong Minds Strong Mines (SMSM) to provide a range of well-being initiatives for all Australia region employees in 2021.
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Read more : New culture journey designed to build business sustainability
New culture journey designed to build business sustainability
In 2021, AngloGold Ashanti conducted a Group-wide culture assessment survey as part of its efforts to reshape company culture and align its values across leadership and employees. Respect for the Group’s people – and their diversity, talents and aspirations – fundamentally informed this assessment, as it will the execution of the assessment’s results.
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Read more : Geita builds essential high schools in Tanzania
Geita builds essential high schools in Tanzania
In the second half of 2021, Bugando and Kamena Secondary Schools, the first government high schools in Tanzania’s Geita District, admitted their first cohort of form five students for the 2021/2022 academic year.
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Read more : Cuiabá Safe Production Programme
Cuiabá Safe Production Programme
Ensuring the safety and health of our employees is AngloGold Ashanti’s first value. In order to achieve this, we have a series of frameworks and guidelines that our employees adhere to every day.
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Read more : Silicosis and TB class action settlement
Silicosis and TB class action settlement
In 2019, AngloGold Ashanti was part of a historic settlement. This settlement not only brought to a close a silicosis class suit by a number of attorneys acting on behalf of former mineworkers, it also sought to address certain shortcomings in the state-run compensation system.
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Read more : Integrated malaria control programme
Integrated malaria control programme
AGA-Mal sprays over a million structures annually, protecting approximately a million people from malaria, and creates ±1,300 local temporary jobs annually
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Read more : Tropicana implements programme to address sleep disorders
Tropicana implements programme to address sleep disorders
AngloGold Ashanti’s Tropicana gold mine in Australia rolled out a programme based on improving health, safety and productivity outcomes by identifying and supporting people with sleep disorders.
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Read more : Brazil’s sustainable partnership programme
Brazil’s sustainable partnership programme
AngloGold Ashanti has a number of partnerships in place that help us to live up to our commitment to make the communities in which we operate better off because of our presence.
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Read more : Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology opens an Obuasi campus
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology opens an Obuasi campus
AngloGold Ashanti has helped to facilitate the development of a satellite Obuasi campus for Ghana’s renowned Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which is headquartered in the city of Kumasi.
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Read more : Quebradona Biodiversity Initiative
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Quebradona Biodiversity Initiative
A ground-breaking plan to create and integrate a park and biodiversity centre into its Quebradona copper-gold project, in Colombia’s Antioquia province.
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Read more : Obuasi Mine’s Closure Consultative Committee
Obuasi Mine’s Closure Consultative Committee
The key purpose of the Closure Consultative Committee (CCC) is to track the implementation of the mine’s reclamation plan, ensuring that the completion criteria contained in RSA are met.
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Read more : Tailings storage facility management in Brazil
Tailings storage facility management in Brazil
We have engaged with concerned communities to demonstrate the effectiveness of our TSF management systems. In 2019, more the 850 people from our nearby communities participated in visits to TSFs.
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Read more : Taking action on climate change
Taking action on climate change
A new climate change strategy is crucial to ensure that we insulate our operations and host communities against physical climate risks.
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Read more : Geita mine builds a community policing team
Geita mine builds a community policing team
The establishment of the community policing team at our Geita gold mine in Tanzania fulfils a number or our sustainability objectives.
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Read more : Gramalote partners with ASM
Gramalote partners with ASM
The Gramalote project in Colombia, now an equal joint venture between AngloGold Ashanti and B2Gold, is supporting a number of ASM formalisation projects. As in many areas in which AngloGold Ashanti operates, ASM has a long tradition in the area surrounding the proposed mine.
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Read more : Helping to improve diversity and inclusion across the company
Helping to improve diversity and inclusion across the company
In 2019, the Global Diversity and Inclusion Framework was drafted and implemented to guide managers to achieve a truly diverse workforce.
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Read more : Diversity and inclusion at Quebradona
Diversity and inclusion at Quebradona
An interview with Carolina Sánchez, geological engineer on the role of women in mining.
