Its decision not to write up its empowerment investigation raises yet more questions.
Gold producers and labour groups appear too far apart in pay talks to reach a settlement, according to the majority union.
Sibanye Gold says it will retrench 1 110 of its workers after its Beatrix West operations shut down earlier this year due to fire damage.
Gold Fields senior official Kgabo Moabelo has been appointed as new managing executive in South Africa, the company has said.
Gold Fields has announced the creation of Sibanye Gold Limited, a new company formed through the unbundling of its subsidiary GFI Mining South Africa.
As Gold Fields announced its operations resumed, another operator said it was hit by a strike, suggesting labour unrest in the mines is far from over.
Workers at the Beatrix number four shaft at Gold Fields have heeded a final ultimatum to return to work and were all back before the deadline.
Workers have returned to Gold Fields’ Beatrix one, two and three shafts as expected after the company issued a final ultimatum before firing them.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says discussions on reopening wage negotiations with striking mineworkers will begin on Thursday.
Gold Fields has begun evicting thousands of its striking workers from company dormitories as work stoppages spread to more gold and platinum mines.
As security guards use tear gas at a Gauteng gold mine, Anglo American Platinum says it will halt production because of threats to its workers.
Security guards have fired teargas at protesters at the Gold Fields KDC West mine near Carletonville, where workers have been on strike since Sunday.
A unanimous ConCourt decision found that miners could seek compensation in terms of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act.
The department of mineral resources has sent condolences to family and friends of the five mineworkers killed during a fire at a Gold Fields shaft.
Striking coal and gold miners will meet the Chamber of Mines in a bid to end strikes that have cost the country tens of millions of dollars.
Gold miners will join the nationwide industrial action this week and threaten supply of the precious metal at a time when gold is at a record high.
Stanbic Bank Ghana, a unit of SA’s Standard Bank, says it has closed a $60-million senior revolving loan with Gold Fields’ unit in the country.
Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest listed gold miner, posted third quarter earnings below market consensus on falling output and rising costs.
The National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday it had cancelled plans for an indefinite strike at Gold Fields’s operations in the country.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has threatened an indefinite strike at Gold Fields’s operations in SA over safety procedures.
A mine worker died in a rock fall at the Gold Fields Kloof Mine near Westonaria, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday.
Gold Fields on Tuesday confirmed that Mvelaphanda Resources had taken receipt of its 15% shareholding in GFI Mining South Africa.
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/ 28 February 2009
Investors may be betting that the pullback in gold futures will be short-lived as they scoop up bullish options in Gold Fields and Ivanhoe Mines.
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/ 19 February 2009
Mvelaphanda Resources on Thursday announced plans that would see the company restructured with a view to delisting.
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/ 29 January 2009
Gold Fields said on Thursday adjusted headline earnings per share rose to 83 cents for the second quarter versus 18 cents in the first quarter.
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/ 12 November 2008
Eleven thousand miners at the Gold Fields Beatrix mine in the Free State will down tools on Thursday as part of a day of mourning, NUM says.
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/ 20 October 2008
Gold Fields estimates that South African mine closures due to fatalities last week have cost it about 300kg (or close to 10 582 ounces).
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/ 17 October 2008
Gold Fields said on Friday it had resumed operations at its Kloof mine after the mine was shut down on Tuesday following the death of a worker.
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/ 23 September 2008
Top gold and precious-metals producer South Africa is wrestling with mounting mine deaths, putting the heat on mining firms to end the carnage.
Gold Fields, the world’s number four gold producer, said on Friday it would fight fraud claims against a unit of the group totalling R11-billion.
Gold Fields workers have refused to be redeployed from South Deep to the Kloof and Beatrix mines, the National Union of Mineworkers says.
Gold Fields, the world’s number four gold producer, on Friday posted a 10% fall in adjusted headline earnings to 140 cents per share.