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Cash at bank and on hand |
479.0 | 526.7 | ||||||
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Total cash and cash equivalents |
479.0 | 526.7 | ||||||
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| 1 | Consumable stores with a fair value of US$7.8 million were reclassified to assets held for sale at 31 December 2016 and sold during 2017. Refer note 12.2 for further details. |
| 2 | Refer note 6 for details on the net realisable value write-downs of inventories. |
| 3 | Heap leach and stockpiles inventories will only be processed at the end of life-of-mine. |
| 4 | The cost of consumable stores consumed during the year and included in cost of sales amounted to US$346.7 million (2016: US$346.3 million and 2015: US$380.7 million). |
| 5 | Comprises US$5.1 million (2016: US$nil) relating to Australian oil derivative contracts, US$9.0 million (2016: US$nil) relating to Ghanaian oil derivative contracts and US$10.9 million (2016: US$nil) relating to gold derivative contracts at South Deep. Refer note 37 for further details. |