Anglo American News

IN THE febrile sub-sector that is part-nationalised banking, it feels sometimes that Royal Bank of Scotland is nearly as much about perception as substance in these post-apocalyptic days.

Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland, faces an embarrassing show-down with institutional investors angered that he plans to divide his time between the troubled bank and miner Anglo American.

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Anglo appointed Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, as a non-executive director, effectively immediately, a statement said.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has replaced Goldman Sachs as a key adviser on the $30bn stock market listing of Russian aluminium giant United Company Rusal.

South Africa's biggest workers' union will hold a strike at Anglo American's coal unit if company officials fail to respond to demands for better working conditions and benefits, the union's spokesman said on Sunday.

Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, is being lined up to join the board of Anglo American.

Thousands of union members will march to the offices of Anglo Coal's owner, Anglo American, on Saturday to present a memorandum of demands, the National Union of Mineworkers said.

The international conversation among foreign-policy makers and political specialists has since the cold war and the Second World War tended to be Anglophone and something of an American monologue.

Without naming sources, the paper said business is valued at $1 billion to $1.5 billion and also could attract interest from fertilizer makers Agrium Inc.

Mining group Anglo American said on Tuesday it plans to retain its 45 percent stake in the world's top diamond producer De Beers in the long-term. "That's what I am thinking today, yes," Anglo's chief executive Cynthia Carroll said in an interview with South Africa's Talk Radio 702.

Many years ago, former trade and industry minister Alec Erwin said he would "fire the board" of the Industrial Development Corporation if they failed to ensure supplies of competitive iron ore during talks to unbundle the steel and iron ore assets of Iscor.

South Africa's rand regained as much as 1.9 percent against the dollar in later trade on Thursday, turning back recent losses, while shares ended stronger, led by Anglo-American and other resource stocks.

Opponents of the proposed Pebble Mine have released a new advisory aimed at investors of mining company Anglo American plc that's designed to raise questions about the controversial project.

Submitted by Ted Williams on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:38. WASHINGTON A new investor analysis to be released this Thursday, October 29th, details the legal, political, financial, engineering and reputational risks that Anglo American plc faces in developing the Pebble Mine Project in the headwaters of Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska.

The decision to sell Lisheen Mine, as a going concern, is part of a strategic portfolio decision to exit zinc as a commodity, a spokesman for the owners stated this week.

Anglo American Plc, one of the world's major diversified mining entities, plans to sell its non-core assets in order to focus on its core mining portfolio and streamline the group's management structure.

Anglo American , pressured by investors after an abortive merger bid from rival Xstrata , could offload its zinc operations first in a fresh divestment drive that could raise $6 billion.

Global miner Anglo American has followed the lead of Rio Tinto and decided to hold a big garage sale of its non-core assets as part of a larger restructuring in the wake of Xstrataa TMs decision not to proceed with a formal takeover offer for at least six months.

By Justin Brown Anglo American had created seven commodity business units with management teams in areas of core geographical focus, the firm said yesterday.