When Anglo started their fortunes were based on gold and diamonds under the great chairmanship of the Oppenheimers,a great blue chip company was built,then in later years they decided to carefully diversify,which was a good policy,and added coal to the base,then platinum....Later base metals were added as their price took off,but i fear no account was taken of the fact that base metals can go into the doldrums for years at a time....The final nail in the coffin was when Billiton started performing better than Anglo they decided to weight the company towards these metals and minerals and DIVEST THEMSELVES COMPLERELY FROM GOLD, the original building block that started everything!
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