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Cash and Cash Equivalents | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
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21. | CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
|  | UNITED STATES DOLLAR |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Cash at bank and on hand |  |  | 479.0 |  |  |  | 526.7 |
Total cash and cash equivalents |  |  | 479.0 |  |  |  | 526.7 |
| 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.

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