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  • Our strategy is to secure, develop, and operate a portfolio of high-quality and long-life resource assets, ensuring adequate protection of our social surroundings and the environment, and absolute respect for local laws, to deliver the better profit levels to shareholders. We achieve this through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, towards a common purpose.
  • We find, plan and build, mine, process, move, and market to our customers a diversified and high quality range of products, spanning bulk commodities, base metals and minerals, and precious metals and minerals.

Discovery

Our geologists search for and discover new sources of the minerals that make our modern lives possible. To be a responsible company, we must find deposits we can develop and mine in a safe and sustainable way. Technology is expanding the frontiers of mining, so the search takes us into many more remote and extreme environments.

We have regional exploration teams, and our exploration offices are co-located within commodity businesses so we can draw upon shared capabilities on a coordinated and collaborative basis.

Our search falls into two categories: greenfield exploration to find entirely new resources; and brownfield exploration to identify additional resources close to existing operations.

We benefit from developing and using world-class expertise and leading technologies. We use geological, geochemical, geophysical, and remote sensing tools to find deposits.

Planning and Building

Before we touch the ground, our geologists and engineers work together using virtual mine planning systems to design the most effective, cost-efficient, environmentally sound construction and operational mine plan. This work can take several years, depending on the complexities of the ore body, the physical environment of the site, its location relative to power and energy supplies, and the route to market. We don’t only plan for the life cycle of the mine, but take great care to look beyond and determine the rehabilitation of the site and the real benefits that local communities will continue to benefit from. The technologies we use to plan and build and rehabilitate help us get it right the first time, which minimizes our environmental footprint while safeguarding cash resources.

Mining

In extracting the products that we all need in our daily lives, we draw on over 100 years of mining experience. Safety comes first: our whole way of working is focused on zero harm. We plan for the lifecycle of the mine and beyond and use our own technologies for reducing waste and protecting the environment. We have both open-pit and underground mines, located in  outhern Africa, South America, North America, Australia. We mine copper, platinum, diamonds, and other precious metals.

Our approach is collaborative: we have a team that supports mining activity in every part of our business by setting standards, providing expertise, sharing new ideas, and developing talent. By working this way we can mine more safely, efficiently, and responsibly, while ensuring we create sustainable value for all of our stakeholders.

Processing

By processing, converting, and refining our raw materials, we produce what customers need. As well as creating new products, our processing technologies enable us to reduce waste, save water, increase efficiency, drive innovation, and, by adding value to our products, support economic growth in the areas we mine.

Processing begins with removing as much waste as possible, often using huge crushers to reduce the size of the material to help recover the valuable minerals.

We then concentrate the minerals using a range of processes that depend on the type of ore. In the case of copper, separation is performed using a flotation process.

Transport and Marketing

After the minerals have been processed, we then transport enormous volumes of our products to where they are needed, to our customers. We use the latest logistics technologies to coordinate and optimize our global shipping needs to deliver on time, every time. And we use our scale and detailed knowledge of the markets for our products to offer our customers a stable supply at their exact specifications, adding value every step of the way.

From smartphones to life-saving medications, from hybrid vehicles to remarkable jewelry, our products make all the difference to all of our lives.