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AngloGold
AngloGold Ashanti Limited is a South Africa, South African gold mining company, with global operations. With a diverse portfolio of cooperation, projects, and exploration activities, AngloGold Ashanti was formed in 2004 by the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. Based on 2023 production, it was the world’s 7th largest Largest gold companies, gold miner 21 mining operations across four continents, listed on the NYSE, New York, Johannesburg, Accra, London, and Australia (continent), Australian stock exchanges, as well as the Paris and City of Brussels, Brussels bourses. The company left the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, JSE in 2023. AngloGold Ashanti has a history of gross human rights violations and causing grave environmental problems for which it won one of the Public Eye Awards. History AngloGold Ashanti was formed on 26 April 2004, after the High Court of Ghana approved the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation three days earlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Godsell
Robert Michael "Bobby" Godsell (born 14 September 1952 in Johannesburg)Bobby Godsell Who'swho South Africa, accessed: 8 October 2010 is a retired South African businessman and the former CEO of n company , a position he held from 1998 to 2007. He was the Non-Executive Chairman of from 2008 to 2009 and was appointed to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cutifani
Mark Cutifani (born 2 May 1958Mark Cutifani miningweekly.com, accessed: 9 July 2010) is an Australian businessman and curren chairman of the energy transition metals board at Vale Base Metals. He is the Senior Independent Director wit Laing O'Rourke and chairs the board's Sustainability Committee. He is also a non-executive director of Total S.A and chairs the board's Sustainability Committee. Cutifani is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashanti Goldfields Corporation
The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. During the turn of the century 1900, the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation was among the most important gold mining companies listed at the London Stock Exchange. The mine is sited on one of the world's major gold deposits and is one of the ten largest in the world. In 1994, the Ghana government, the majority shareholder, announced plans to sell 20-25 percent of its interest in AGC in a share flotation. The company was listed on the London and Ghana stock exchanges. It was the largest flotation ever organised by any gold mining company coordinating and advisory team alone numbered over 200 people. Each of the company's 10,000 employees received five free shares. In 1996 AGC was listed on the New York Stock Exchange to raise new capital, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ramos
Maria da Conceição das Neves Calha Ramos (born 1959) is a South African businesswoman and former civil servant. She is currently the group chair of Standard Chartered, a position she has held since May 2025. Ramos was the chief executive officer of the Absa Group from March 2009 to February 2019, during which time she oversaw the company's unbundling from Barclays. An economist by training, she was formerly the director-general of the National Treasury (South Africa), South African National Treasury from 1996 to 2004 and the chief executive officer of Transnet from 2004 to 2009. She left Absa in 2019 to take retirement but nonetheless was chairperson of AngloGold Ashanti from December 2020 to May 2024. Early life and career Ramos was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 22 February 1959. She was the eldest of four daughters and her parents emigrated to Mozambique and then, when Ramos was six years old, to Vereeniging, South Africa. Her family was working class; her father was a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo American Plc
Anglo American plc is a British Multinational corporation, multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore, polyhalite and steelmaking coal. The company has operations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Anglo American has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has a secondary listing on the JSE Limited, Johannesburg Stock Exchange. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, ''Forbes'' Global 2000, Anglo American was ranked as the 274th largest public company in the world. History 1917–1990 Ernest Oppenheimer, a Jewish German émigré, founded the Anglo American Corporation (AAC) in 1917 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with financial backing from the American bank J.P. Morgan & Co. and £1 million raised from UK and US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmony Gold (mining)
Harmony Gold is the largest gold mining company in South Africa. Harmony operates in South Africa and in Papua New Guinea. The company has nine underground mines, one open-pit mine and several surface operations in South Africa. In Papua New Guinea, it has Hidden Valley, an open-pit gold and silver mine and a 50% interest in the Morobe Mining Joint Venture, which includes the Wafi-Golpu project and extensive exploration tenements. Outside the joint venture, Harmony's own exploration portfolio focuses principally on highly prospective areas in Papua New Guinea. In FY17, South African operations accounted for 91% of total gold production of 1.09Moz, with 9% coming from Papua New Guinea. At 30 June 2017, Harmony reported attributable gold equivalent mineral reserves of 36.7Moz of gold, and attributable gold mineral resources of 104.3Moz. At the end of FY17, Harmony employed 33 201 people in total – 26 478 employees and 4 512 contractors in South Africa and 1 300 employees and 91 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Mboweni
Tito Titus Mboweni (16 March 1959 – 12 October 2024) was a South African politician who served as Minister of Finance of South Africa in the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa from 2018 to 2021. Mboweni was the eighth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and the first Black South African to hold the post from 1999 to 2009. He was sworn in as Minister of Finance on 9 October 2018, following Nhlanhla Nene's resignation. Mboweni was a founding member of Mboweni Brothers Investment Holdings and a former international advisor of Goldman Sachs International. He had been appointed a non executive Director for South Africa at the New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank). Early life and career The youngest of three children, Tito Mboweni was born on 16 March 1959. He grew up in Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province. He attended the University of the North between 1979 and 1980, where he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He did not complete his studies there a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newmont Mining
Newmont Corporation is an American gold mining company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. It is the world's largest gold mining corporation. Incorporated in 1921, it holds ownership of gold mines in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Ghana, Argentina, Peru, and Suriname. In addition to gold, Newmont mines copper, silver, zinc and lead. The Newmont Corporation bought Canadian mining company, Goldcorp in 2019 for USD $10 billion. In 2023, Newmont acquired Newcrest mining for USD $16.8 billion. Newmont has approximately 31,600 employees and contractors worldwide, and is the only gold company in the S&P 500 stock market index. History Early years The Newmont Company was founded in 1916 in New York by Colonel William Boyce Thompson as a holding company to invest in Worldwide mineral, oil, and related companies. According to company lore, the name "Newmont" is a portmanteau "New York" and "Montana", reflecting where Thompson made his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Largest Gold Companies
Gold mining companies can be ranked by various metrics, including annual production, cash costs per ounce, and market capitalization. The most common rankings are based on either total gold output (in ounces) or market capitalization, which reflects the total value of a company’s outstanding shares. As of 2024, the world’s top 10 largest gold producers by output included US-based Newmont Corporation, Canada-based Barrick Gold, Russia-based Polyus, China-based Zijin Mining. China remains the List of countries by gold production, top gold-producing country, followed by Russia, Australia, Canada, and the United States. While global gold production peaked around 2018–2019, recent years have seen stable but slightly declining output, largely due to resource depletion in mature mining regions and increased production costs. Ranking The following are the world’s largest publicly reporting gold mining companies by production in 2024, measured in million ounces. This ranking i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Eye Awards
The Public Eye on Davos, held every year between 2000 and 2015, was a counter-event to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The project involved non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world and was coordinated by Swiss organizations Erklärung von Bern (EvB, renamed "Public Eye" in 2016) and Greenpeace Switzerland. The Public Eye is a platform for substantial criticism of "purely profit-oriented globalization". The focus of the Public Eye Awards since 2005 has been on corporate social responsibility. In 2009, the Positive category was for the first time awarded for a courageous employee for his or her exemplary contributions. History The Public Eye was first held in the year 2000 to accompany the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos critically. Together with the newspaper WOZ, they organized an event under the name ″Who rules the world″ and organized a public discussion with the president of the WEF, Klaus Schwab. In the following year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbabwe
file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 16.6 million people as per 2024 census, Zimbabwe's largest ethnic group are the Shona people, Shona, who make up 80% of the population, followed by the Northern Ndebele people, Northern Ndebele and other #Demographics, smaller minorities. Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona language, Shona, and Northern Ndebele language, Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
