A decade of success

Our History

Our immediate focus by necessity was to embark on an intense period of acquisition - to find, buy and integrate businesses that would deliver the scale and diversity of products and operating regions that would turn our business into one of the world's leading mining companies.

We simultaneously improved the quality of our assets delivering year-on-year operating cost reductions, increasing productivity, extending the life of existing mines, expanding our resource base and integrating industry-leading safety, social and environmental standards.

The companies we acquired provided us with a range of potential growth options, as well as the scale to develop major new mining operations. We have already successfully delivered 19 major growth projects since 2002, extending existing mines and developing new operations across five countries. We are now constructing a further 19 major new operations or expansions to increase production volumes significantly.