Platinum Miner Secures Platinum Status

Anglo American plc (LSE:AAL) announced it has been awarded platinum status as one of the U.K.’s most responsible companies.

As quoted in the press release:

Business in the Community (BITC) has awarded Anglo American a platinum ranking in the 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) – the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. Anglo American is among 30 leading UK companies, and the only mining group, to secure platinum status, which recognises companies for embedding corporate responsibility across their business, with incentive structures at Board and operational levels and considerable stakeholder engagement.

Anglo American’s CEO, Cynthia Carroll said:

We are committed to our pro-active and collaborative approach to tackling the issues and the challenges that we face as an industry and to operating in a safe, sustainable way that enhances our host communities, across the world.

Click here to read the Anglo American plc (LSE:AAL) press release.