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AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to announce that it has signed the regulatory and fiscal agreements with the Government of Ghana that willprovide the framework for the redevelopment of the Obuasi Gold Mine into a modern, productive mining operation. PDF, 455 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana (AGAG) would like to make clear that areas of the concession vacated by illegal miners in recent days are to remain secured and free of any illegal mining activity, under the directive from the Minerals Commission. PDF, 202 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana is still monitoring the outcome of the Ghana Minerals Commission directive issued last week that all illegal miners should vacate the company’s Obuasi concession. PDF, 98 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana is currently monitoring the outcome of the Ghana Minerals Commission directive issued last week that all illegal miners will vacate the company’s Obuasi concession by latest Monday, October 10 2016. PDF, 196 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana notes the recent comments on StarrFM about the involvement of AngloGold Ashanti employees in the illegal mining incursions into Obuasi Mine’s operational areas. PDF, 116 KB

The Government of Ghana has successfully deployed security forces to remove illegal miners from some key areas of the Obuasi mine, after AngloGold Ashanti Ghana made it clear that the presence of these miners would likely prompt a forced withdrawal from site of the remaining staff performing critical tasks. PDF, 269 KB

AngloGold Ashanti notes the recent comments by the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Akwasi Ofori Boadi Agyeman, reported on Ultimate FM. PDF, 114 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana has asked the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) to make an urgent order compelling the Government of Ghana to use its authority to return peace and stability to the Obuasi Gold Mine. PDF, 198 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana notes the tragic death of at least nine illegal miners operating on its Obuasi Gold Mine in the past three weeks alone, and again urges authorities to find a peaceful resolution to the occupation of the site, now in its fifth month. PDF, 206 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana has received assurances from the Honourable Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. John Alexander Kobina Ackon, that there will be restoration of law and order over the coming week. PDF, 196 KB

Despite AngloGold Ashanti Ghana’s repeated attempts to have Ghanaian authorities restore law and order at the Obuasi mine, the security situation on site continues to deteriorate. PDF, 223 KB

As one of the most significant investors in Ghana, we AngloGold Ashanti Ghana continue to call on the Government of Ghana to urgently resolve the situation at the Obuasi Gold Mine where illegal miners have been stealing significant quantities of high-grade, gold bearing material every day for three months. PDF, 817 KB

AngloGold Ashanti has grave and mounting concern over the situation at the Obuasi Gold Mine where illegal miners have been looting large quantities of high-grade gold bearing material for more than two months. PDF, 118 KB

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana would like to inform all community members in the Obuasi area that the operation to restore law and order on the Obuasi Gold Mine concession, conducted by the Ghana Army since Saturday, is progressing successfully PDF, 171 KB

AngloGold Ashanti would like to provide notice that the Government of Ghana has ordered the return of a military unit to the Obuasi Gold Mine, after an absence of more than a month. PDF, 189 KB

AngloGold Ashanti today confirmed that the voluntary process which AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited (AGAG) commenced in November 2013, to surrender some 60% of the Obuasi mine concession to the Government of Ghana, has been implemented by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources PDF, 311 KB

We refer to a number of online articles carried in the past day in Ghana, originally posted on CitiFM under the headline, Anglogold to cede majority of Obuasi mine to Government. PDF, 39 KB

Last week, in the interests of safety, AngloGold Ashanti Ghana withdrew employees performing non-essential functions from its idled Obuasi Gold Mine, following the incursion of illegal miners inside the fenced areas of the site. PDF, 136 KB

Following engagement between AngloGold Ashanti CEO Mr Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, and the Ghanaian Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, the Minister has committed to sending a delegation of senior government officials today to examine the illegal mining at Obuasi Gold Mine. PDF, 137 KB

In the interests of safety, AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Limited has withdrawn all employees performing non-essential functions from its Obuasi Gold Mine, following the incursion of hundreds of illegal miners inside the fenced operational areas of the site since 5 February 2016. PDF, 128 KB

AngloGold Ashanti is deeply saddened to confirm the death of an employee, John Owusu, who was killed in a car accident, on Saturday 6th February 2016, after a large group of illegal miners, trespassing on the site, hurled stones and other projectiles at a group of mine employees who were observing the incursion. PDF, 127 KB