Exhibit 99.1

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 2016, ELECTION FOR STERLING DIVIDEND, AND RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Jersey, Channel Islands, 2 May 2017 – 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 2016 of US$1.00 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 26 May 2017 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 17 March 2017. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 16 March 2017.

The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2016 in Pounds Sterling is: $1 = £0.7743.

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):

	In Favour				Against				Withheld
Resolution	No. of votes		% of votes		No. of votes		% of votes		No. of votes
Ordinary Resolutions
Report and Accounts		78 994 540		99.9953		3 676		0.0047		80 652
Declaration of Dividend		79 068 373		99.9987		1 026		0.0013		9 469
Directors' Remuneration Report		76 730 580		97.8444		1 690 404		2.1556		657 883
Directors’ Remuneration Policy		72 836 976		92.1365		6 216 317		7.8635		25 574
Re-election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw		78 941 205		99.8553		114 387		0.1447		23 276
Re-election of Mark Bristow		78 885 583		99.7808		173 303		0.2192		19 982
Re-election of Christopher Coleman		78 650 833		99.4826		409 035		0.5174		19 000
Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum		78 861 504		99.7546		193 979		0.2454		23 385
Election of Olivia Kirtley		79 052 915		99.9922		6 191		0.0078		19 762
Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko		78 944 625		99.8569		113 163		0.1431		21 080
Re-election of Andrew Quinn		78 328 415		99.0755		730 875		0.9245		19 578
Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth		78 712 981		99.5609		347 156		0.4391		18 731
Re-appointment of Auditors		77 728 299		98.3133		1 333 540		1.6867		17 028
Auditors' Remuneration		79 041 622		99.9834		13 112		0.0166		24 134
Ordinary Resolutions
Authority to Allot Shares		78 951 705		99.8787		95 906		0.1213		31 257

	In Favour				Against				Withheld
Resolution	No. of votes		% of votes		No. of votes		% of votes		No. of votes
Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman)		78 700 159		99.5488		356 712		0.4512		21 997
Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director		78 701 802		99.5509		355 038		0.4491		22 028
Award of Shares to Chairman		78 702 377		99.5509		355 038		0.4491		21 453
Special Resolutions
Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights		78 511 021		99.3184		538 828		0.6816		29 019
Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares		78 294 776		99.0344		763 394		0.9656		20 697

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
randgold@dpapr.com 

Website: www.randgoldresources.com