Anglo American Wins IAIA Corporate Initiative Award for Stakeholder Engagement Tool

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Anglo American Wins IAIA Corporate Initiative

Award for Stakeholder Engagement Tool

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 1, 2012

LONDON

,

June 1, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Anglo American has been presented with the International Association for

Impact Assessment's (IAIA)

2012 Corporate Initiative Award

, at the annual IAIA

conference in

Porto, Portugal

. The inaugural award recognises Anglo

American's Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT), for its contribution to

responsible practice in community engagement and development.

Stephen Lintner, IAIA president, commented: "The IAIA Board of Directors

selected SEAT as the recipient of this new award because we believe Anglo

American has made a unique attempt to incorporate impact assessment into

the way it manages its operations on a day-to-day basis. We also wanted to

recognise the fact that Anglo American is sharing its knowledge and experience

in impact assessment by making SEAT available to the public."

Launched by Anglo American in 2003, SEAT empowers managers across its

operations to build constructive, candid and transparent engagement with

stakeholders; to better understand individual stakeholder needs; and then

respond to these in a way that delivers greater social and economic benefit to

communities over the long term.

Jon Samuel, Head of Social Performance at Anglo American, commented: "We

are delighted that SEAT has been recognised by the IAIA. We know that

modern, responsible mining can bring great opportunity for economic and

social progress, but there are many challenges to making this a reality. We

need to better understand our own impacts on communities so that we can

create the best possible social and economic benefits for communities for

stakeholders in the countries in which we operate."

"We believe we need to be more transparent and accountable in the way that

we do business. And we hope that by sharing the tool with the public we can

help other companies draw on our own experience in sustainable development,

and encourage an open dialogue on what are often complex issues," Mr

Samuel added.

Anglo American has recently launched SEAT Version 3. To

http://www.angloamerican.com/seat

Notes to editors:

Anglo American is one of the world's largest mining companies, is

headquartered in the UK and listed on the

London

and

Johannesburg

stock

exchanges. Anglo American's portfolio of mining businesses spans bulk

commodities - iron ore and manganese, metallurgical coal and thermal coal;

base metals - copper and nickel; and precious metals and minerals - in which it

is a global leader in both platinum and diamonds. Anglo American is committed

to the highest standards of safety and responsibility across all its businesses

and geographies and to making a sustainable difference in the development of

the communities around its operations. The company's mining operations,

extensive pipeline of growth projects and exploration activities span southern

Africa

,

South America

,

Australia

,

North America

,

Asia

and

Europe

.

http://www.angloamerican.com