JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 09/25/12 — Workers at AngloGold Ashanti-s (NYSE: AU) South African operations have embarked on an unprotected strike, preventing the commencement of the night shift on September 25. Workers at the West Wits and balance of the Vaal River Regions- operations joined those at Kopanang, who embarked on an unprotected work stoppage on September 20. This interruption to normal mining and processing operations comes amid unprocedural disruptions elsewhere
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 09/21/12 — An unprotected strike at AngloGold Ashanti-s (NYSE: AU) Kopanang operations prevented the night shift from taking place on September 20, 2012. The strike is currently confined to this single mine. Management-s priority is to maintain safety, peace and stability at the site and to continue a constructive dialogue with all employees, their representatives and other stakeholders. The company is following the necessary procedures and an updat
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 07/23/12 — AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) is pleased to announce that it has signed a new US$1 billion, five-year unsecured revolving credit facility (RCF) maturing in July 2017 with its banking syndicate. This replaces the existing four-year, US$1bn unsecured RCF maturing in April 2014. The new RCF was significantly over-subscribed.The new facility improves the overall tenor and maturity profile of the group-s existing debt facilities and further s
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 07/23/12 — AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) is pleased to report strong second quarter gold production of 1.073Moz, which represents a 9% improvement on the first quarter, at an estimated total cash cost of $800/oz – $805/oz. The result is better than the company-s market guidance for the quarter of 1.04Moz at a total cash cost of $840/oz – $845/oz, due largely to strong operating performances from the group-s Continental Africa region and the Americas
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 03/15/12 — AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) is pleased to acknowledge that Moody-s Investors Service today upgraded the issuer rating of AngloGold Ashanti Limited to Baa2 from Baa3, together with upgrading the senior unsecured debt obligations of the company-s guaranteed subsidiary to Baa2, in recognition of significant improvements in the company-s balance sheet position and operational performance."We-ve come a long way in three years, with the
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 08/04/11 — AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) posted record adjusted headline earnings* of $342m in the second quarter after production and costs improved amid record gold prices."We did a good job of containing costs and growing production, despite some difficult production issues," Chief Executive Officer Mark Cutifani said. "Our focus on driving free cash-flow generation and returns is evident in these results and this positions us well
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 07/22/11 — AngloGold Ashanti Limited ("AngloGold Ashanti") (NYSE: AU) has entered into an agreement to acquire ownership over the 47,065,916 shares in First Uranium Corporation ("First Uranium") held by Village Main Reef Limited ("Village"), which equates to a 19.79% interest in First Uranium, for CAD0.60 per share (ZAR4.3569 per share or USD0.64 per share) representing aggregate consideration of approximately CAD28 mi
