AngloGold Ashanti plc (NYSE:AU) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call August 6, 2024 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Alberto Calderon - Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director
Gillian Doran - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Stewart Bailey - Chief Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Officer

Conference Call Participants

Adrian Hammond - SPG Securities
Leroy Mnguni - HSBC
Chris Nicholson - RMB Morgan Stanley
Raj Ray - BMO Capital Markets
Adrian Day - Adrian Day Asset Management
Tanya Jakusconek - Scotia Bank

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the AngloGold Ashanti H1 2024 Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. There will be an opportunity to ask questions later during the conference. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this call is being recorded.

I would now like to the conference over to Stewart Bailey. Please go ahead sir.

Stewart Bailey

Thanks very much Denney, and welcome everybody to AngloGold Ashanti’s First Half 2024 Results. As always, Alberto and Gillian will cover the material in the call and you've got other members of the executive leadership team to take your questions.

Before we go into the presentation I would invite you to look at the Safe Harbor statement at the front end of the presentation deck that contains important information regarding forward-looking statements and we do encourage you to study it when you have a moment.

Without any further ado, I'll end hand over to Alberto.

Alberto Calderon

Thank you, Stewart. Before we go to the numbers, I’ll start with the safety. After three years with no fatalities, at our managed operations, we received the tragic reminder in May that we're only as good as our last day with no serious injury.

[Indiscernible] a colleague and father of three who work for a drilling contractor at Geita lost his life with the light motor vehicle he was driving overturned after he lost control driving down a steep hill. Marcelo Godoy, our CTO completed an in-depth investigation into the incident, which identified clear steps to do everything we can, so that there is no repeat going into the future. Our thoughts are with Albert’s family and loved ones as we mourn his loss.

I have led a series of town hall meetings across our business over the past few weeks reflecting on the learnings from this tradegy and leading a campaign to ensure continuous focus on the very few critical controls needed to eliminate what we call high consequence low frequency events like this.