Anglogold Ashanti

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AngloGold Ashanti
legal form Corporation
founding 2004 (through a merger )
Seat Johannesburg , South Africa
management
  • S. Venkatakrishnan, CEO
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 BrazilBrazil BRA 100% 403,000 407,000 1,720
Cerro Vanguardia ArgentinaArgentina ARG 92.5% 246,000 304,000 950
Geita TanzaniaTanzania TZA 100% 477,000 489,000 1,970
Iduaprim GhanaGhana GHA 100% 177,000 214,000 1,840
Kibali Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo COD 45% 237,000 264,000 4.130
Morila MaliMali MLI 40% 44,000 22,000 110
Obuasi GhanaGhana GHA 100% 243,000 3,000 5,490
Sadiola MaliMali MLI 41% 85,000 70,000 1,800
Serra Grande BrazilBrazil BRA 100% 136,000 132,000 480
Siguiri GhanaGhana GHA 85% 290,000 305,000 2,440
Sunrise Dam AustraliaAustralia OUT 100% 262,000 228,000 1,340
Tropicana AustraliaAustralia OUT 70% 358,000 292,000 2,660
Vaal River South AfricaSouth Africa RSA 100% 452,000 371,000 5,490
West wits South AfricaSouth Africa 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Integrated annual report. Anglogold Ashanti, 2016, accessed November 11, 2017 .
  2. Claudia Bröll: South Africa: Gold prospectors in deep intoxication. In: faz.net. July 19, 2008, accessed February 8, 2018 .
  3. Fatima Gabru: Safe, deep level mining at record-breaking levels. In: miningweekly.com. April 3, 2009, accessed February 8, 2018 .
  4. 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.).
  5. Additional key figures on Anglogold Ashanti. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  6. a b Anglogold Ashanti ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. Dirty gold: Boom destroys people and nature. Swiss television , October 26, 2010, accessed on March 6, 2011 .
  8. ^ 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.
  9. Murders and poisoning for gold mining , swissinfo, January 28, 2011