Anglo American PLC De Beers rough diamond sales value cycle 4, 2018 (7822O)
May 22 2018 - 5:43AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMAAL
RNS Number : 7822O
Anglo American PLC
22 May 2018
22 May 2018
Anglo American rough diamond sales value for De Beers' fourth
sales cycle of 2018
Anglo American plc announces the value of rough diamond sales
(Global Sightholder Sales and Auction Sales) for De Beers' fourth
sales cycle of 2018, amounting to $550 million.
Bruce Cleaver, CEO of De Beers, said: "In the fourth sales cycle
of the year we saw robust demand for De Beers' rough diamonds,
reflecting continued strong demand for diamond jewellery,
especially from American consumers as we head towards the important
JCK Las Vegas trade show at the start of June."
Cycle 4 2018(1) Cycle 3 2018(2) Cycle 4 2017
(provisional) (actual) (actual)
Sales value(3) $550m $524m $522m
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(1) Cycle 4 2018 provisional sales value represents sales as at 21 May 2018.
(2) Cycle 3 2018 actual sales value is restated following the
earlier publication of a provisional figure for the third 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.
For further information, please contact:
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James Wyatt-Tilby Paul Galloway
james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8759 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8718
Marcelo Esquivel Robert Greenberg
marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com robert.greenberg@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8891 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 2124
South Africa Sheena Jethwa
Pranill Ramchander sheena.jethwa@angloamerican.com
pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8680
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2592
Ann Farndell
ann.farndell@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2786
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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