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Anglo American will review its assets after a 94% plunge in annual profit and writedowns at its diamond and nickel operations, the company said on Thursday.
“We are now in a process of systematically going through all of our assets in a review just to assess their role in the portfolio, their success in the portfolio, and absolutely nothing is off the table,” CEO Duncan Wanblad told reporters.The London-listed miner’s 2023 profit attributable to shareholders fell to $283 million from $4.5 billion a year earlier. The company declared a full-year dividend of $0.96 per share, down from $1.98.
Anglo, which also produces copper, platinum group metals , iron ore and steelmaking coal, is not new to asset overhauls when commodity markets hit rock bottom. A decade ago, when its shares dived 75% on investor concerns over spiralling debt, the miner was poised to sell assets and cut jobs until the plans were abandoned thanks to a recovery in metal prices.
Sales of rough diamonds at the company’s De Beers unit fell in 2023 as an economic slowdown curbed appetite for luxury items in major consumers China and the United States.
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