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Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Schedule of Inventories |
|  | INVENTORIES |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Gold-in-process and stockpiles |  |  | 325.0 |  |  |  | 305.4 |
|  | Consumable stores |  |  | 176.5 |  |  |  | 220.9 |
|  | Total inventories |  |  | 501.5 |  |  |  | 526.3 |
|  | Heap leach and stockpiles inventories included in non-current assets4 |  |  | (133.3 | ) |  |  | (132.8 | )
|  | Total current inventories5 |  |  | 368.2 |  |  |  | 393.5 |
4 | Heap leach and stockpiles inventories will only be processed at the end of life-of-mine.
5 | The cost of consumable stores consumed during the year and included in cost of sales amounted to US$280.0 million (2017: US$346.7 million).

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