The company carried its colonial baggage awkwardly and its safety record was appalling: the 2006 annual report recorded the death of 44 employees and contractors. The twin power bases in Johannesburg and London pulled in opposite directions. That collection of disappointments, however, should be set against the reality that Anglo American, circa 2007, was a hellishly difficult organisation to run. Shareholders have a long list of understandable complaints: a weak share price slow copper production delays to a huge iron ore project in Brazil over-spending on acquisitions and the unresolved corporate nightmare of strikes, lay-offs and violence in the platinum mines in South Africa. That said, the reasons for Carroll's departure are not vague.
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