Our approach to environmental management

Wherever possible we prevent - or otherwise minimise, mitigate and remediate - harmful

effects that our operations may have. We have developed a range of practical
programmes for environmental management, and work on these in partnership with our
stakeholders - such as local communities and conservation groups. This collaborative
approach helps us increase our understanding of the risks we face - both challenges and
opportunities - and how best to manage them.

Detailed environment standards apply to all our businesses and these standards provide
consistency in environmental management and environmental performance across our
global operations and projects. Our businesses are audited internally against these
standards and are expected to meet environmental performance requirements.

Our priorities for effective environmental performance and

management:
Each operation has its own environmental challenges. Environmental management is
based on the identification, assessment and control of risks specific to the relevant site.
We focus on key areas of environmental risk, water, air quality, chemically reactive
mineral waste, hazardous material and non-mineral wastes and land rehabilitation and
disturbance.

To achieve this we:

Minimise impacts to water. We:

• Avoid disturbance or degradation of high-value water resources.

• Control the quality of water discharges.

• Optimise water efficiency in infrastructure design and management.

• Design and operate water infrastructure to control the risk of catastrophic failure or
release of contaminated water.

Minimise impacts to air quality. We:

• Prevent harm to human health and the environment from air impacts from our
business activities.

• Prevent breaches of applicable criteria under normal and reasonable worst-case

operating conditions, and normal and reasonable worst-case meteorological
conditions.

• Control our air emissions at their source.

• Understand our contribution to local airsheds.

Minimise impacts chemically reactive mineral wastes. We:

• Manage chemically reactive mineral waste so contaminant release does not harm
people, ecosystems or biota; to prevent the loss of existing beneficial uses of offsite
water resources; and to avoid or minimise the creation of environmental and financial
liabilities.

• Avoid riverine and shallow marine disposal of mining and processing mineral at new
operations and projects. Any existing operations which already practice riverine or
shallow marine disposal must continuously seek to reduce the environmental
impacts.

Minimise hazardous material and non-mineral wastes. We:

• Prevent contamination of surface water, ground water and soil from hazardous
materials and non-mineral wastes.

• Remediate or manage, for the long term, contaminated sites where investigation has
demonstrated an unacceptable impact or risk to ecosystems, communities, water
resources or allowable land use.

Control land disturbance and rehabilitate land. We:

• Locate and design facilities to limit the new disturbed footprint, preferentially avoid
disturbance of sensitive or high value lands, and minimise direct impacts to the
environment.

• Design and construct new and expanded mineral waste storage and disposal
facilities in a manner that facilitates successful rehabilitation and revegetation,
allowing the eventual return of the land surface to a beneficial post-mining use.

• Rehabilitate existing mineral waste disposal facilities, open pits and subsidence
zones to the extent practicable, consistent with planned final land use, and current
and reasonably foreseeable future regulatory requirements.

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