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At AngloGold Ashanti, our approach to sustainability stems from and is guided by our purpose: Mining to empower people and societies.

Our approach encompasses

  • Our Purpose and Values underpin every decision we make and every action we take
  • Engaging with our stakeholders with respect, consistency, clarity and understanding
  • Monitoring and managing our performance against our targets
  • Ensuring that our systems and processes are subject to assurance, and that we communicate our approach and sustainability performance on material matters regularly and transparently
  • Securing our social licence to operate by making a positive impact today, and leaving a lasting legacy

Sustainability strategy and framework

Our purpose – Mining to empower people and advance societies – underpins the way we conduct our business and shapes our approach to sustainability. A fundamental aspect of our business ethos and strategy, sustainability is deeply ingrained in our corporate values.

AngloGold Ashanti’s strategy guides the choices made and actions taken to ensure we both create and deliver value in alignment with our purpose and mission.

We seek to align our values, our responsibilities as a corporate citizen, and the long term sustainability and profitability of the business by prioritising people, safety, health and sustainability as the foundation of our business and strategy.

We recognise that good governance is pivotal to long-term value creation, and a core driver to us being able to deliver on our strategy.

How we create and share value

Empowering people

  • Ensuring safety, health and wellbeing
  • Attracting, developing and retaining talent, drawing from our host communities wherever possible
  • Strengthening our culture, driving inclusion, diversity and equity

Empowering communities

  • Supporting community resilience including through corporate social investment, local employment and procurement
  • Addressing ASM
  • Ensuring effective security, and respecting human rights and rights of indigenous peoples

Caring for the environment

  • Climate action and pursuing resilience
  • Responsible tailings management
  • Managing our emissions, effluents and waste
  • Water stewardship
  • Responsible rehabilitation, closure, preventing biodiversity loss

Ensuring best practice governance

  • Business ethics, compliance and disclosure
  • Navigating geopolitical matters and government relations
  • Responsible and secure sourcing and local procurement
  • Cyber safety

Materiality and material sustainability issues

Understanding what matters most to society, the environment, investors and the business itself is central to how AngloGold Ashanti creates and protects long-term value. Our materiality assessment therefore included detailed interviews with key internal and external stakeholders, and considered new and emerging disclosure regulations.

By aligning our materiality assessment process  with our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, we ensure a comprehensive view of risks and opportunities that may affect not only our financial outcomes but also our broader societal and environmental responsibilities.

Our double materiality assessment is based on the guidance of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on double materiality, where we consider both our external impacts on society and the environment, and the ways in which these factors may affect AngloGold Ashanti, both in the assessment process and our stakeholder engagement.

For more see the 2025 Sustainability Report, Materiality and material sustainability issues

ESG commitments

We subscribe to a number of external principles, charters and standards that reflect our values and commitment to ESG principles – and allow our stakeholders to hold us accountable. Our participation in industry initiatives enables us to inform and influence global standards and practices as well as gain insight into emerging expectations, issues and risks.

AngloGold Ashanti is a member of the ICMM and is committed to its principles, position statements and performance expectations that guide member companies on continuously improving their sustainability performance. ICMM member companies commit to reporting on their sustainability performance publicly every year in line with the standards set by the GRI. www.icmm.com

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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global initiative which promotes transparent and accountable disclosure and use of revenues from natural resources. AngloGold Ashanti discloses all information in line with country-specific EITI processes and within annual country-level reports.
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The UNGC is a voluntary international corporate citizen network, representing partnerships among businesses, governments, civil society and the United Nations. AngloGold Ashanti has been an active Board member of the UNGC since 2004 and continues to meaningfully accelerate and scale business impacts to achieve the UNGC goals.
www.unglobalcompact.org

These are a set of principles designed to guide companies in maintaining the safety and security of their operations within an operating framework that encourages respect for human rights. AngloGold Ashanti annually reports on its efforts to implement and promote the VPSHR.
www.voluntaryprinciples.org

The GRI is an independent, international organisation that helps organisations communicate their impacts on the environment, economy and people, including human rights, through their reporting standards. AngloGold Ashanti reports in accordance with the GRI Standards.
www.globalreporting.org

SASB aims to help connect businesses and investors on the financial impacts of sustainability through industry-specific standards. Effective 1 August 2022, SASB became part of the IFRS Foundation and its standards will ultimately transition into the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. AngloGold Ashanti’s reporting against SASB positions us well to potentially align with IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards in the future. www.sasb.org

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework offers a global benchmark for climate change disclosure. AngloGold Ashanti has adopted the recommendations of the TCFD and commits to incrementally reporting in line with this framework. For more information on our TCFD-aligned disclosures, see our 2025 Annual Report

AngloGold Ashanti uses the WGC Conflict-Free Gold Standard as an important tool to help ensure the gold we produce is conflict-free.
www.gold.org