Anglo American’s Bristol Bay Controversy: Wildlife vs. Mineral Riches

Melanie Warner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:25 -0400

When Cynthia Carroll became CEO of Anglo American in early 2007, more than a few longtime executives at the 91-year-old mining giant were stunned.

Here was a petite, blond, effervescent American woman parachuting into a $10-billion-a-year company that had always been led by a South African man who'd paid his dues with years of company servitude. Was Carroll, a 51-year-old largely unknown mining executive, really up to the job?