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Fourth Quarter
Fourth-quarter AHE was $7m, or 2 US cents a share, compared to $295m, or 76 US cents a share in the fourth quarter of 2011. AHE was affected by the lower volumes and higher cash costs during the quarter, reflecting the impact of the strike in South Africa which eroded $208m of earnings and the change-over of the mine development contractor at Obuasi and other factors which had a negative impact.

A strong performance from the Americas region was primarily offset by the strikes in South Africa. Despite challenges faced in South Africa, Standard & Poor's affirmed the investment grade rating on AngloGold Ashanti's publicly traded debt following an extensive review. Major milestones were reached outside of South Africa, most notably the termination of the underground development contract at Obuasi, where sub-par development performance has been identified as a key constraint to the mine's performance in recent years and which had also hurt earnings in the fourth quarter. At Tropicana, 1.0Moz was added to the resource and the group achieved the lowest quarterly All Injury Frequency Rate (AIFR) on record for the organisation at 6.17 per million hours worked.

*Adjusted headline earnings

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