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Derivative Financial Assets (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Disclosure Of Detailed Information about Derivative Financial Assets Explanatory [Abstract]

Schedule of derivative financial assets

			United States Dollar
Figures in millions unless otherwise stated			2021			2020
Australian gold derivative contracts			2.0			27.3
Salares Norte foreign currency derivative contracts			—			86.0
Ghanaian oil derivative contracts			3.1			—
Total derivative financial assets			5.1			113.3
Non-current derivative financial assets1			—			(31.4)
Derivative financial assets			5.1			81.9

1Relates to the Salares Norte foreign exchange derivative contract which is for the period January 2022 to December 2022.

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