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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Details2) - USD ($) $ in Millions | Jan. 01, 2019 | Dec. 31, 2018
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Disclosure of changes in accounting policies, accounting estimates and errors [Abstract] |  |
Operating lease commitment |  | $ 167
Expense relating to variable lease payments not included in measurement of lease liabilities | $ 38 |
Contract assessed as service arrangements | (130) |
Expense relating to short-term leases for which recognition exemption has been used | (6) |
Information about lessee's exposure arising from variable lease payments | (1) |
Discounting lease liabilities | (4) |
Net investment in finance lease | 64 |
Finance lease liabilities | 111 | $ 19
Current finance lease liabilities | 37 |
Non-current finance lease liabilities | 74 |
Randgold [Member] |  |
Disclosure of changes in accounting policies, accounting estimates and errors [Abstract] |  |
Finance lease liabilities | $ 28 |

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- Definition The amount of current finance lease liabilities. [Refer: Finance lease liabilities] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Note Expiry date 2019-01-01 -Name IAS -Number 1 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 55 -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IAS&num=1&date=2018-03-02&anchor=para_55&doctype=Standard&book=b -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of the expense relating to leases of low-value assets accounted for applying paragraph 6 of IFRS 16. This expense shall not include the expense relating to short-term leases of low-value assets. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Effective 2019-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 16 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 53 -Subparagraph d -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=16&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_53_d&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of the expense relating to short-term leases accounted for applying paragraph 6 of IFRS 16. This expense need not include the expense relating to leases with a lease term of one month or less. Short-term lease is a lease that, at the commencement date, has a lease term of 12 months or less. A lease that contains a purchase option is not a short-term lease. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Effective 2019-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 16 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 53 -Subparagraph c -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=16&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_53_c&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of the expense relating to variable lease payments not included in the measurement of lease liabilities. Variable lease payments are the portion of payments made by a lessee to a lessor for the right to use an underlying asset during the lease term that varies because of changes in facts or circumstances occurring after the commencement date, other than the passage of time. [Refer: Lease liabilities] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Effective 2019-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 16 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 53 -Subparagraph e -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=16&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_53_e&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of liabilities related to finance leases. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Note Expiry date 2019-01-01 -Name IAS -Number 1 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 55 -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IAS&num=1&date=2018-03-02&anchor=para_55&doctype=Standard&book=b -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of future minimum lease payments payable under non-cancellable operating leases. Minimum lease payments are payments over the lease term that the lessee is or can be required to make, excluding contingent rent, costs for services and taxes to be paid by, and reimbursed to, the lessor, together with: (a) for a lessee, any amounts guaranteed by the lessee or by a party related to the lessee; or (b) for a lessor, any residual value guaranteed to the lessor by: (i) the lessee; (ii) a party related to the lessee; or (iii) a third party unrelated to the lessor that is financially capable of discharging the obligations under the guarantee. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Expiry date 2019-01-01 -Name IAS -Number 17 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 35 -Subparagraph a -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IAS&num=17&date=2018-03-02&anchor=para_35_a&doctype=Standard&book=b -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The gross investment in the finance lease discounted at the interest rate implicit in the lease. Finance lease is a lease that transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership of an underlying asset. Gross investment in the finance lease is the sum of: (a) the lease payments receivable by a lessor under a finance lease; and (b) any unguaranteed residual value accruing to the lessor. Interest rate implicit in the lease is the rate of interest that causes the present value of (a) the lease payments and (b) the unguaranteed residual value to equal to the sum of (i) the fair value of the underlying asset and (ii) the initial direct costs of the lessor. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Effective 2019-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 16 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 94 -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=16&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_94&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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- Definition The amount of non-current finance lease liabilities. [Refer: Finance lease liabilities] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Note Expiry date 2019-01-01 -Name IAS -Number 1 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 55 -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IAS&num=1&date=2018-03-02&anchor=para_55&doctype=Standard&book=b -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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