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About us

At Anglo American we're re-imagining mining to improve people's lives.

Products

Our metals are the essential ingredients in smartphones, electric cars, wind turbines; and our diamonds fulfil your dreams.

Sustainability

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Sustainable Mining Plan

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

FutureSmart Mining™

Smart innovation in technology, digitisation & sustainability working hand in hand to connect metals & minerals to all of us who need and value them.

Investors

Our operational and financial performance, presentations and reports.

Careers

Join us in transforming the very nature of the industry to help create a safer, cleaner, smarter future.

Media

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Suppliers

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Origins

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Our industry

In Our Industry, you can learn about how our products are used by society, discover technology innovation projects across our business and explore our industry with different mining terms and techniques explained along the way.

What are minerals used for? Find out how mineral resources are used everday.

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3 Essential Metals used in medicine

What are minerals used for? Find out how mineral resources are used everday.

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Examples of minerals used in our daily lives

Copper is the third most commonly mined metal in the world. Common uses for copper include alloys in jewellery, touch surfaces in medicine, and construction.

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Common uses for copper in our daily lives

Stories

spatial technology is changing

Technology

28 October 2019

How spatial technology is changing the...

The mining engineer puts down her cup of coffee and reaches for a headset. Immediately her desk, filing cabinet and...

What are minerals used for? Find out how mineral resources are used everday.

Our products

28 October 2019

Examples of minerals used in our daily...

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Industry trends

15 August 2019

Mining and the Fourth Industrial Revolution...

As part of an ongoing series of dialogues with key stakeholders, I recently hosted a dinner in South Africa to discuss...

Modern mining technology used by Anglo American.

Technology

10 July 2019

Trends in Modern Mining Technology

hydrogen fuel

Technology

30 April 2019

How Hydrogen Fuel Cells Work to Power The...

Hydrogen fuel cell technology has the potential to reinvent the cars we drive, the rockets we send into space, how we...

Copper is the third most commonly mined metal in the world. Common uses for copper include alloys in jewellery, touch surfaces in medicine, and construction.

Our products

18 March 2019

Common uses for copper in our daily lives

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