Anglogold Ashanti
| AngloGold Ashanti | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2004 (through a merger ) |
| Seat | Johannesburg , South Africa |
| management |
|
| Number of employees | 52,649 (2016) |
| sales | 4.254 billion USD (2016). |
| Branch | Mining |
| Website | www.anglogoldashanti.co.za |
Anglogold Ashanti (company spelling : AngloGold Ashanti ) is a South African company with headquarters in Johannesburg . The mining company produces gold .
history
In 2004 the Ghanaian mining company Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (AGC) merged with the South African mining company AngloGold , a subsidiary of Anglo American plc. Since then the company has been called AngloGold Ashanti and is the world's third largest gold producer.
In 2009 the company penetrated the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa to a depth of 3,770 meters and thus holds the world record for depth.
In 2015, the US Cripple Creek & Victor mine was sold to Newmont Mining Corporation for a cash price of US $ 820 million.
production
The company operated a total of 16 mines worldwide in 2016 .
| SURNAME | country | PROPORTION OF | PRODUCTION 2014 in oz |
PRODUCTION 2016 in oz |
RESERVES (P + P) in 000 oz (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aga Mineracao |
 BRA
|
100% | 403,000 | 407,000 | 1,720 |
| Cerro Vanguardia |
 ARG
|
92.5% | 246,000 | 304,000 | 950 |
| Geita |
 TZA
|
100% | 477,000 | 489,000 | 1,970 |
| Iduaprim |
 GHA
|
100% | 177,000 | 214,000 | 1,840 |
| Kibali |
 COD
|
45% | 237,000 | 264,000 | 4.130 |
| Morila |
 MLI
|
40% | 44,000 | 22,000 | 110 |
| Obuasi |
GHA
|
100% | 243,000 | 3,000 | 5,490 |
| Sadiola |
MLI
|
41% | 85,000 | 70,000 | 1,800 |
| Serra Grande |
BRA
|
100% | 136,000 | 132,000 | 480 |
| Siguiri |
GHA
|
85% | 290,000 | 305,000 | 2,440 |
| Sunrise Dam |
 OUT
|
100% | 262,000 | 228,000 | 1,340 |
| Tropicana |
OUT
|
70% | 358,000 | 292,000 | 2,660 |
| Vaal River |
 RSA
|
100% | 452,000 | 371,000 | 5,490 |
| West wits |
RSA
|
100% | 545,000 | 400,000 | 13,240 |
| total | 4,436,000 | 3,630,000 | 50,100 * |
Source: Anglogold Ashanti annual reports 2014 and 2016
* including reserves from Anglogold Ashanti's gold projects
criticism
Non-governmental organizations and news magazines suspect that gold mining, especially by Anglogold Ashanti, leads to environmental damage, human rights violations, child labor and poisoning of miners, especially in Ghana . The chemicals that are used to dissolve the gold end up in lakes and sometimes in drinking water. The Swiss consumer magazine Kassensturz also found miserable working conditions in the gold industry in West Africa: the miners died of mercury poisoning and “children toiled 12 hours a day” away from their families.
Public Eye 2011, supported by Greenpeace , presented Anglogold Ashanti with the negative award of the expert jury on the basis of these allegations . When nominated by the Ghanaian non-governmental organization Wacam, there was also talk of attacks in which "suspects" were killed by fighting dogs on the mine premises or tortured in the company's own holding cells.
Web links
- Website AngloGold Ashanti (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Integrated annual report. Anglogold Ashanti, 2016, accessed November 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Claudia Bröll: South Africa: Gold prospectors in deep intoxication. In: faz.net. July 19, 2008, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Fatima Gabru: Safe, deep level mining at record-breaking levels. In: miningweekly.com. April 3, 2009, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Bernd Kröger: The gold production of the last 50 years . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-8332-0 , Die Unzen Millionär: Anglogold Ashanti, p. 234 ff . (with further data on the history of the company.).
- ↑ Additional key figures on Anglogold Ashanti. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Anglogold Ashanti ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Dirty gold: Boom destroys people and nature. Swiss television , October 26, 2010, accessed on March 6, 2011 .
- ^ Berne Declaration - Neste Oil and AngloGold Ashanti at the Davos Public Eye pillory. ( Memento from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) January 28, 2011.
- ↑ Murders and poisoning for gold mining , swissinfo, January 28, 2011