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Anglogold ashanti workers fired 20121024

Striking miners protest on the hill at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 22, 2012. AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-largest gold producer, became today the latest mining firm to issue an ultimatum to striking workers in South Africa that they must return to the mines or be dismissed.

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