Glossary
- $
- United States dollars
- A$ or AUD
- Australian dollars
- AASA
- Anglo American South Africa
- AC
- Aircore
- ADS
- American Depositary Share
- AGA
- AngloGold Ashanti
- AGAA
- AngloGold Ashanti Australia
- AGM
- Annual general meeting
- AISC
- All-in sustaining costs
- AIFR
- All injury frequency rate: the total number of injuries and fatalities per million hours worked
- AMCU
- Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union
- AMP
- Adaptive Management Partnership
- AODFR
- All-occupational diseases frequency rate
- APMO
- Amendment to the Programme of Mining Operations
- ARS
- Argentinean peso
- ARVs
- Antiretrovirals
- ASM
- Artisanal and small-scale mining
- ASX
- Australian Securities Exchange
- Au
- Contained gold
- BBBEE Act
- Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 53 of 2013
- BEE
- Black economic empowerment
- bn
- Billion
- BRL
- Brazilian real
- BSP
- Bonus Share Plan
- By-products
- Any products that emanate from the core process of producing gold, including silver, uranium and sulphuric acid
- CC&V
- Cripple Creek & Victor
- CCOD
- Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases
- CDI
- CHESS Depositary Interest
- CECIDE
- Centre du Commerce International pour le Développement
- CEO
- Chief Executive Officer
- CFGS
- Conflict-Free Gold Standard
- CFO
- Chief Financial Officer
- CIL
- Carbon in leach
- CIP
- Carbon in pulp
- CIP
- Co-Investment Plan
- CLR
- Carbon Leader Reef
- CO2-e
- Carbon dioxide equivalent
- COIDA
- Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 61 of 1997
- Companies Act
- The South African Companies Act, 71 of 2008, as amended
- COO
- Chief Operating Officer
- CPI
- Consumer price index
- CSI
- Corporate social investment
- DD
- Diamond drilling
- DMR
- Department of Mineral Resources
- DRC
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- DTI
- Department of Trade and Industry
- EAOs
- Emolument attachment orders
- EBITDA
- Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation
- EDCs
- Enterprise development centres
- EITI
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Authority
- ESIA
- Environmental and social impact assessment
- ETF
- Exchange traded fund(s)
- Exco
- Executive Committee
- FOMC
- US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee
- GEDP
- Geita Economic Development Programme
- GhDS
- Ghanaian Depositary Share
- GHG
- Greenhouse gas
- GhSE
- Ghana Stock Exchange
- GJ
- Gigajoule
- GMWU
- Ghana Mineworkers’ Union
- GoG
- Government of Ghana
- Gold produced
- Refined gold in a saleable form derived from the mining process
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative
- GSSC
- Global shared-services centre
- GVDBT
- Great Victoria Desert Biodiversity Trust
- HDSA
- Historically disadvantaged South African
- HIV/AIDS
- Human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- HRDD
- Human rights due diligence
- HRWG
- Human Rights Working Group
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICMM
- International Council on Mining and Metals
- IDA
- Investment development agreement
- IDEAM
- Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales
- IIRC
- International Integrated Reporting Council
- ILO
- International Labour Organization
- ISO 14001
- The ISO 14000 family of standards is an environmental management system of the International Organization for Standardization
- JORC
- Joint Ore Reserves Committee
- JSE
- Johannesburg Stock Exchange
- King III
- King Report on Governance for South Africa 2009
- King IV
- King Report on Governance for South Africa 2016
- kL/kl
- Kilolitre
- lb
- Pound
- LBMA
- London Bullion Market Association
- LED
- Light-emitting diode
- LLCCA
- Laverton Leonora Cross Cultural Association
- LTI
- Long-term incentive
- LTIFR
- Lost-time injury frequency rate
- LTIP
- Long Term Incentive Plan
- M or m
- Metre or million, depending on context
- MBOD
- Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases
- MCF
- Mine call factor
- MDT
- Les Mêmes Droits Pour Tous
- ML/Ml
- Megalitre
- MOI
- Memorandum of Incorporation
- Moz
- Million ounces
- MPRDA
- Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 28 of 2002
- MQA
- Mining Qualifications Authority
- MSR
- Minimum shareholding requirement
- MW
- Megawatt
- MWS
- Mine Waste Solutions, part of AngloGold Ashanti's Surface Operations, operates independently and processes slurry material reclaimed hydraulically from various tailings storage facilities, and produces uranium as a by-product as well as backfill used as mining support in underground mined out areas
- NCOP
- National Council of Provinces
- nCROE
- Normalised cash return on entity
- NECSA
- South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC Limited
- NED
- Non-executive director
- NEMA
- National Environmental Management Act, 107 of 1998
- NEMC
- National Environmental Management Council
- NGO
- Non-governmental organisation
- NHI
- National Health Insurance
- NIHL
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- Non-GAAP
- A method used to measure the earnings of a company reported in addition to earnings calculated using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- NUM
- National Union of Mineworkers
- NYSE
- New York Stock Exchange
- ODMWA
- Occupational Diseases in Mines & Works Act, 78 of 1973
- OEM
- Original equipment manufacturer
- OHSAS
- The Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series of standards is an international occupational health and safety management system specification
- OLD
- Occupational lung disease
- oz
- Ounces (troy)
- Productivity
- An expression of labour productivity based on the ratio of ounces of gold produced per month to the total number of employees in mining operations
- R, ZAR or rand
- South African rands
- RC
- Reverse circulation
- Region
- Defines the operational management divisions within AngloGold Ashanti Limited, namely South Africa, Continental Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and Tanzania), Australasia (Australia and surrounding areas), and the Americas (Argentina and Brazil)
- Rehabilitation
- The process of reclaiming land disturbed by mining to allow an appropriate post-mining use, with rehabilitation standards are defined by country-specific laws, including but not limited to, the South African Department of Mineral Resources, the US Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, and the relevant Australian mining authorities, addressing, among other issues, groundwater and surface water, topsoil, final slope gradient, waste handling and revegetation
- Remco
- Remuneration Committee
- REMSDCS
- Real-time Dynamic Control System
- RRSC
- Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Steering Committee
- S&P
- Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and its predecessor organisations have been in business for more than 150 years, providing independent credit risk research and benchmarks across industries, asset classes and geographies with a view to helping clients, investors and other market participants make more informed business and investment decisions
- SADC
- Southern African Development Community
- SAMREC
- South African Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
- SAPS
- South African Police Service
- SASRIA
- A state-owned company and short-term insurer providing cover to people and businesses with assets in South Africa, and to government entities, against special risks such as civil commotion, public disorder, strikes, riots and terrorism
- SEC
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission
- SLP
- Social and labour plan
- SME
- Small and medium enterprise
- SMME
- Small, medium and micro enterprise
- SOKIMO
- Société Minière de Kilo-Moto
- SOX
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- SPE
- Social political enablement
- SSP
- Sadiola Sulphides Project
- STI
- Short-term incentives
- STIP
- Short Term Incentive Plan
- Stripping ratio
- The ratio of waste tonnes to ore tonnes mined, calculated as total tonnes mined less ore tonnes mined divided by ore tonnes mined
- t
- Tons (short) or tonnes (metric)
- TAMICO
- Tanzanian Mines Energy Construction and Allied Workers Union
- TB
- Tuberculosis
- TEC
- Total employee costed: all employees and contractors directly employed in and associated with the production process
- Total cash costs
- Total cash costs include site costs for all mining, processing and administration, reduced by contributions from by-products, and inclusive of royalties and production taxes, excluding amortisation, rehabilitation, corporate administration, retrenchment, capital and exploration costs
- TSR
- Total shareholder return
- UASA
- United Association of South Africa
- UHSB
- Ultra-high strength backfill
- UNGC
- United Nations Global Compact
- US or United States
- United States of America
- VCR
- Ventersdorp Contact Reef
- VCT
- Voluntary counselling and testing
- VPSHR
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- WGC
- World Gold Council