Randgold Resources is an African focused gold mining and exploration company with listings on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Major discoveries to date include the 7.5 million ounce Morila deposit in southern Mali, the 7 million ounce Yalea deposit and the 5 million ounce Gounkoto deposit, both in western Mali, the 4 million ounce Tongon deposit in the Côte d’Ivoire and the 3 million ounce Massawa deposit in eastern Senegal. Randgold Resources (‘Randgold’) financed and built the Morila mine which since October 2000 has produced approximately 5.8 million ounces of gold and distributed more than US$1.6 billion to stakeholders. It also financed and built the Loulo operation which started as two open pit mines in November 2005. Since then, an underground mine has been developed at the Yalea deposit and construction of a second underground operation is underway at the Gara deposit. The company’s new Tongon mine poured its first gold on 8 November 2010. Mining started in January 2011 at Gounkoto, another deposit on the Loulo permit in Mali, and it is scheduled to start supplying ore to the nearby Loulo plant in the second half of 2011. Randgold is fast tracking Kibali in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where construction of the mine is targeted to start mid 2011. In 2009 the company acquired a 45% interest in the Kibali project, which now stands at 10 million ounces of reserves and is one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in Africa. Randgold also has an extensive portfolio of organic growth prospects, which is constantly replenished by intensive exploration programmes in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Mali and Senegal.

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