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Randgold Resources: Result of AGM

May 3, 2016 3:23 PM EDT

JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS -- (Marketwired) -- 05/03/16 -- Randgold Resources (LSE: RRS) (NASDAQ: GOLD)

RANDGOLD RESOURCES LIMITED Incorporated in Jersey, Channel Islands Reg. No. 62686 LSE Trading Symbol: RRS NASDAQ Trading Symbol: GOLD ("Randgold Resources" or the "Company")

FINAL DIVIDEND FOR 2015, ELECTION FOR STERLING DIVIDEND, AND RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Jersey, Channel Islands, 3 May 2016 - Randgold Resources confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today the shareholders approved a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 of US$0.66 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 27 May 2016 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 18 March 2016. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 17 March 2016.

The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 in Pounds Sterling is: � 1 = US$1.4675.

The Company also announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting all of the resolutions were passed on a poll. Copies of all the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

A summary of the votes cast in respect of each resolution is set out below (a "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution):


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Resolution                       In Favour           Against        Withheld
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                               No. of    % of    No. of     % of     No. of
                                votes    votes   votes     votes     votes
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    Ordinary Resolutions
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1.  Report and Accounts      80 059 440 100.00       235              76 036
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2.  Declaration of Dividend  80 063 309 100.00     1 499              70 903
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3.  Directors' Remuneration
    Report                   78 211 539  97.69 1 848 261      2.31    75 900
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4.  Directors' Remuneration
    Policy                   78 176 791  97.65 1 884 261      2.35    73 968
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5.  Re-election of Safiatou
    Ba-N'Daw                 80 057 604  99.99     7 726      0.01    70 370
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6.  Re-election of Mark
    Bristow                  79 273 983  99.99     6 168      0.01   855 849
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7.  Re-election of Norborne
    Cole Jr                  79 782 563  99.65   282 617      0.35   785 329
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8.  Re-election of
    Christopher Coleman      79 786 171  99.65   279 008      0.35    70 521
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9.  Re-election of Kadri
    Dagdelen                 80 014 891  99.94    50 277      0.06    70 532
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10. Re-election of Jemal-ud-
    din Kassum               80 055 672  99.99     9 546      0.01    70 482
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11. Re-election of Jeanine
    Mabunda Lioko            80 056 083  99.99     9 196      0.01    70 421
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12. Re-election of Andrew
    Quinn                    79 987 106  99.90    78 323      0.10    70 271
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13. Re-election of Graham
    Shuttleworth             79 982 701  99.90    82 372      0.10    70 627
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14. Re-appointment of
    Auditors                 79 855 312  99.74   210 242      0.26    70 157
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15. Auditors' Remuneration   80 089 912  99.99     6 454      0.01    39 345
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    Ordinary Resolutions
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16. Authority to Allot
    Shares                   78 614 567  99.99    11 131      0.01 1 510 013
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17. Awards of Shares to Non-
    Executive Directors
    (other than the Senior
    Independent Director and
    the Chairman)            78 117 180  99.63   287 995      0.37 1 730 536
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18. Award of Shares to
    Senior Independent
    Director                 78 118 346  99.63   287 191      0.37 1 730 174
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19. Award of Shares to
    Chairman                 78 116 596  99.63   288 483      0.37 1 730 632
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    Special Resolutions
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20. Authority to Disapply
    Pre-Emption Rights       78 547 436  99.91    72 984      0.09 1 515 291
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21. Authority for the
    Company to Purchase its
    Own Shares               77 967 360  99.16   660 289      0.84 1 508 062
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RANDGOLD RESOURCES ENQUIRIES:
Chief Executive
Mark Bristow
+44 788 071 1386
+44 779 775 2288

Financial Director
Graham Shuttleworth
+44 779 771 1338
+44 153 4735 333

Investor & Media Relations
Kathy du Plessis
+44 20 7557 7738
[email protected]

Website: www.randgoldresources.com

Source: Randgold Resources



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