Anglo American plc is one of the worlds largest mining and natural resource groups. With its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, it is a global leader in platinum group metals, gold and diamonds, with significant interests in coal, base and ferrous metals, industrial minerals and paper and packaging. The group is geographically diverse, with operations in Africa, Europe, South and North America, Australia and Asia.

            Red = 25 day moving average.           Green = 200 day moving average.

SALES PER ACTIVITY (Data as of 31/12/2005)

Packaging and Paper: 23%
Ferrous metals:         20.5%
Industrial minerals:    14%
Platinum:                 12.5%
Nonferrous metals:    12%
Coal:                       9%
Gold:                       9%

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Anglo American said Thursday it expected copper and diamond production to decline in 2019 after reporting annual output on a copper equivalent basis rose 7% following double-digit percentage growth in copper and rough diamonds output in the final quarter of the year.

In the final three months through December, Copper output rose 23% to 183,500 metric tons and rough diamond production from De Beers climbed 12% to 9.1m carats.

Platinum and palladium production both increased by 3% to 602,300 ounces and 386,600 ounces respectively, driven by an improved operational performance across the majority of the portfolio, the miner said.

The company forecasts diamond, copper, platinum production in 2019 will be below that of last year.

Diamond production was expected in the range of 31m to 33m carats for 2019, below the 35.2m carats reported last year.

Copper production in the upcoming year was expected in a range of 630,000 to 660,000 tons, below 668,300 tons seen this year. While 2019 platinum production guidance was revised to 2.0m to 2.1m ounces from 2.0m to 2.2m ounces previously.

'Solid operational performance resulted in a 23% increase in production from our Copper business, more than offsetting the impact of infrastructure constraints at Kumba,' said Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American.

'We ended this successful quarter with the restart of operations at Minas-Rio and receipt of a key approval relating to the important Step 3 licence area that supports its increase in production towards design capacity.'