{"id":24022,"date":"2026-02-20T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/anglogold-ashanti-profit-surges-on-record-gold-prices-higher-output\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:46","slug":"anglogold-ashanti-profit-surges-on-record-gold-prices-higher-output","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/anglogold-ashanti-profit-surges-on-record-gold-prices-higher-output\/","title":{"rendered":"AngloGold Ashanti profit surges on record gold prices, higher output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AngloGold Ashanti this Friday posted a 186% jump in full-year profit, mainly driven by record gold prices and increased production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The miner&#8217;s headline earnings came in at $2.725 billion in the year ended December 2025, up from $954 million the year before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AngloGold produced 3.1 million ounces of gold in 2025, a 16% increase over the previous year, mainly due to the first full-year contribution from the Sukari mine in Egypt, in which the company acquired a 50% share in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company received an average gold price that was 45% higher than the previous year, helping it declare a quarterly dividend of $1.73 per share. That brings AngloGold Ashanti&#8217;s total payouts for 2025 to $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24023,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-24022","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"AngloGold Ashanti this Friday posted a 186% jump in full-year profit","published_date":"2026-02-20 14:41:41","news_description":"AngloGold Ashanti this Friday posted a 186% jump in full-year profit","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26829,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24022\/revisions\/26829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}