Anglo American plc

Anglo American plc is one of the world’s largest mining companies. Founded in 1917, it is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and has over 100,000 permanent employees. The company’s mining operations and extensive pipeline of growth projects are located in southern Africa, South America, Australia, North America and Asia. Its portfolio of mining businesses spans precious metals and minerals. Business units: Iron ore and Manganese Metallurgical Coal Thermal Coal Copper Nickel Platinum Diamonds Other Mining and Industrial What we do Exploration Our success depends upon a constant supply of world class mineral deposits. They must represent resources capable of being economically extracted, and we obtain them either through our own exploration or by the acquisition of mineral deposits found by others. Mining, processing and smelting At the forefront of the mining industry for over 90 years, we mine iron ore and manganese, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, nickel, platinum and diamonds. Mining and technology Mining and Technology is an in-house resource, providing multidisciplinary, world-class technical skills as well as research and technology development capabilities.