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Worker strike halts operations at AngloGold’s Guinea mine

Reuters | August 29, 2018 | 3:12 pm Precious Metals Africa Gold

CONAKRY, Aug 29 (Reuters) – A strike at AngloGold Ashanti’s Siguiri gold mine in Guinea has halted operations there, mines ministry secretary-general Saadou Nimaga said on Wednesday.

The Société aurifère de Guinée, in which AngloGold holds an 85 percent stake, confirmed in a statement that a strike was underway and encouraged employees not wishing to participate in the strike to report to work. The strike began on Tuesday.

(By Saliou Samb and Aaron Ross; Editing by Jane Merriman)