{"id":1179288,"date":"2020-04-20T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1020964"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:33:43","slug":"anglo-american-board-donates-portion-of-pay-to-covid-19-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1179288","title":{"rendered":"Anglo American board  donates portion of pay to covid-19 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo American (LON: AAL) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"announced (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angloamerican.ca\/\" >announced<\/a> on Monday that its board directors have agreed to donate 30% of their salaries for three months to covid-19 related charities or funds.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anglo American and De Beers also announced additional donations of $2 million to South Africa\u2019s Solidarity Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo also donated $1 million to the Oppenheimer family\u2019s South African Future Trust that has been established to support small and medium-sized businesses through the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur efforts in response to this pandemic are directed at where support is most needed, very often in terms of basic services at the local community level in remote areas around our mines,&#8221; Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani, said in the media release.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo American has already donated $25 million to covid-19 causes and said on Monday its foundation would match employee charity donations up to an initial $1 million. <\/p>\n<p>The company also recently announced that South Africa\u2019s 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"will impact its iron ore and coal guidance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/south-africas-lockdown-to-hit-anglo-american-output\/\" >will impact its iron ore and coal guidance<\/a> for 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo American has already donated $25 million to covid-19 causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,2640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179405,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179288\/revisions\/1179405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}