Ensure that gold's not resource curse, pleads AngloGold Ashanti's Godsell

African gold company AngloGold Ashanti wanted to demonstrate to the governments of the six African countries in which it operated that gold was a resource blessing and not a resource curse, said CEO Bobby Godsell.

Godsell calls for international partnership to upgrade Africa's infrastructure

A new international partnership should be formed to upgrade the physical infrastructure of the African continent, AngloGold Ashanti CEO Bobby Godsell said on Tuesday. He told the Mining Indaba in Cape Town that the state of Africa's infrastructure...

Mining group takes big step in Aids fight

In what is regarded as a momentous step towards fighting the rampant Aids pandemic, mining giant Anglo American yesterday announced its plans to make anti-retroviral therapy (ART) available to those HIV-infected employees across its operating...

Gold giant launches Aids counterattack

Using data it gathered from sexually-transmitted infection clinics last year, gold mining giant AngloGold estimates HIV prevalence levels of between 25% to 30% amongst its 44 000 South African employees, depending on the location of the operation,...