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Gold Fields

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with operational mines and development projects across South Africa, Ghana, Australia, Peru, Chile, and Canada. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company engages in underground and open-pit gold mining, mineral exploration, extraction, processing, and smelting. Its key operational assets include the South Deep underground mine in South Africa, the Tarkwa and Damang open-pit mines in Ghana, multiple mining sites in Western Australia, the Cerro Corona copper-gold mine in Peru, and the Salares Norte project in Chile. The company produces gold bullion and copper-gold concentrates for global metal markets.

Snapshot

Public USOwnership
1998Year founded
~50,000Employees
Sandton, South AfricaHead office
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Global footprint

Operations

Products and/or services of Gold Fields

  • Australian Mining Operations: Open-pit and underground gold mines across Western Australia, including the St Ives, Agnew, Granny Smith, and Gruyere joint-venture assets, producing over one million ounces of gold annually through dedicated processing plants and leach circuits.
  • Ghanaian Mining Operations: Large-scale open-pit gold extraction facilities centered at the Tarkwa and Damang operations in Ghana, utilizing carbon-in-leach processing plants and extensive heap leach facilities to process millions of tonnes of ore annually.
  • South Deep Operation: A major deep-level underground gold mining complex situated in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa, utilizing fully mechanized long-hole open-stoping methods and an integrated metallurgical processing plant to extract gold-bearing reefs.
  • Cerro Corona Operation: An open-pit copper-gold mining and milling operation located in the Cajamarca region of Peru, producing gold-copper concentrate transported via trucks and shipping vessels to international smelters for refining.
  • Salares Norte Project: A high-grade open-pit gold and silver mining operation located in the Atacama region of Chile, featuring a dry-stack tailings facility and a carbon-in-leach processing plant designed for high-altitude Andean conditions.
  • Canadian Operations: Gold exploration and deposit development initiatives across Quebec, focused on the high-grade Windfall underground gold project and regional mineral targets within the prospective Abitibi greenstone belt.

Gold Fields executive team

  • Mr. Michael John Fraser B.Com., MBLCEO & Executive Director
  • Mr. Alex T. DallCFO & Executive Director
  • Mr. Francois SwanepoelChief Operating Officer
  • Ms. Jongisa MagagulaExecutive Vice-President of Investor Relations & Corporate Affairs
  • Ms. Kelly CarterExecutive VP and Group Head of Legal & Compliance
  • Mr. Chris GratiasExecutive Vice President of Strategy, Planning & Corporate Development
  • Ms. Mariette SteynExecutive Vice President of People & Sustainability
  • Mr. Benford MokoatleExecutive Vice President of South Africa
  • Mr. Jason SanderActing Chief Technical Officer
  • Shyam JagwanthVP & Group Head of Internal Audit