Anglo American PLC De Beers rough diamond sales cycle 7, 2018 (3202A)

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Anglo American PLC

11 September 2018

 
 
11 September 2018 
Anglo American rough diamond sales value for De Beers' seventh 
sales cycle of 2018 
 
 

Anglo American plc announces the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auction Sales) for De Beers' seventh sales cycle of 2018, amounting to $505 million.

Bruce Cleaver, CEO of De Beers Group, said: "De Beers Group provided Sightholders with the opportunity to re-phase the allocation of some smaller, lower value rough diamonds. Demand remains stable ahead of the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair."

 
                 Cycle 7 2018(1)  Cycle 6 2018(2)  Cycle 7 2017 
                  (provisional)       (actual)        (actual) 
Sales value(3)        $505m            $533m          $507m 
                 ---------------  ---------------  ------------ 
 
   (1)     Cycle 7 2018 provisional sales value represents sales as at 10 September 2018. 

(2) Cycle 6 2018 actual sales value is restated following the earlier publication of a provisional figure for the sixth sales cycle of 2018.

   (3)     Sales values are quoted on a consolidated accounting basis and are before capitalisation of pre-commercial production revenues at Gahcho Kué. Auction Sales included in a given cycle are the sum of all sales between the end of the preceding cycle and the end of the noted cycle. 

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Notes to editors:

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals to meet the growing consumer-driven demands of the world's developed and maturing economies. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

As a responsible miner - of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel - we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people's lives.

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