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African Barrick Gold - African gold producer set to join FTSE 100

April 2010

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In spite of the fact that mining groups tend to dominate the peaks and troughs in the FTSE-100 these days it remains a curious fact that African-focused gold producer and explorer, Randgold Resources, 4808p, is still the only pure gold play in the top index. Randgold also happens to be one of the top performers in the past decade as its excellent track record for increasing production and reserves has lifted the share price from £5 in June 2003 to over £48, leaving its prospective PE standing at a mammoth 35 times. This, along with the sky-high gold price, has clearly incentivised Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold producer, to de-merge its Tanzanian gold interests into a new company, African Barrick Gold (ABG), wh ...

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