Gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti has embarked on a remarkable number of humanitarian initiatives to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, including making two of its mining hospitals available to the provincial governments of North West and Gauteng for the exclusive use by them to treat and isolate COVID-19 patients. The Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, headed by Canadian Kelvin Dushnisky, said on Thursday that it was working on a number of fronts to support healthcare providers, bolster community health and hygiene responses, and to provide relief to the most vulnerable in society.