Anglo American has introduced a change to its strategy, tweaking its plans to exit a large number of its mines as commodity prices increase and cost cutting works to improve the financial performance of its assets. This has given shareholders hope of a resumption of dividends from the middle of 2017. Anglo CE Mark Cutifani hosted a number of analysts on a visit to the group’s premier diamond and platinum assets in Southern Africa, outlining the slight change to the strategy unveiled in 2015 to dispose of bulk commodity assets and narrow the focus to just diamonds, platinum and copper.
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