AngloGold Ashanti today posted a six-fold improvement in adjusted headline earnings from the previous quarter to $113m as the costs were better than guidance and the company made steady progress recovering from the strike action in South Africa in the last quarter of 2012. A continued emphasis on cost optimisation saw total cash costs beat ...

AngloGold Ashanti announces the appointment of Mr. Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Venkat has been with AngloGold Ashanti for nine years. He was the Chief Financial Officer at Ashanti Goldfields until that company's merger with AngloGold Limited in May 2004, creating what is now AngloGold ...

AngloGold Ashanti today announced full-year adjusted headline earnings of $924m, the second-highest on record, despite a difficult year in which an unprotected strike and safety stoppages caused major disruption to its South African operations. The company is planning to deliver higher margin production from its South African mines, which were ...

AngloGold Ashanti -- The Board of AngloGold Ashanti today announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Mark Cutifani, who has accepted an offer to become the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American Plc, effective April 3. Mark will remain in the role of CEO of AngloGold Ashanti until March 31. The Board of Directors, under Chairman Tito ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/10/12 -- AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) is pleased to note that Standard & Poor's has affirmed the investment grade rating on the company's publicly traded debt following an extensive review."We've taken strong, decisive action to maintain our investment grade rating and preserve our financial ...

AngloGold Ashanti posted adjusted headline earnings of $235m in the third quarter, during which time it continued to advance its major growth projects in Australia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall production in the quarter was primarily affected by labour unrest in South Africa which led to an unprotected strike ...

AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to report that most workers have started returning to the three West Wits mines this morning. These workers join their colleagues at the Vaal River operations who returned to work on Monday, 22 October and Tuesday, 23 October 2012. Large numbers of employees at the Mponeng, TauTona and Savuka mines returned to work ...

AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to report that the unprotected strike across the three mines at its Vaal River region has come to an end. Workers at the Kopanang, Great Noligwa and surface operations returned to work on Monday, 22 October 2012 and those at Moab Khotsong ended their unprotected work stoppage on Tuesday, 23 October 2012. All of these ...

AngloGold Ashanti has done its utmost over the past month to work towards a mutually agreeable solution to the unprotected strike at the company's Vaal River and West Wits operating units. The strike has cost approximately 32,000oz a week in lost production. The company has engaged with striking workers in a respectful and honest way throughout ...

AngloGold Ashanti confirms that its mines in South Africa remain at a standstill amid the unprotected strike which began on 20 September 2012 at the Kopanang operation and spread to the remaining five operations on 25 September 2012. Our priority remains to protect the safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate and we continue ...