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Gold Fields awards wind turbine contract for St Ives energy project - Mining Weekly

Thursday, 13 February 2025

International bullion miner  Gold  Fields has awarded a contract to Goldwind to  design , manufacture, and construct seven wind  turbines  for its St Ives  gold  mine, located 80 km south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

The  turbines  will form a 42 MW wind farm as part of the company's A$296-million St Ives  Renewable Energy   project , which is set to become Western Australia's largest renewable- energy  initiative at an existing mine site.

The broader renewable- energy   project  also includes a 35 MW  solar  farm, currently under  construction  in partnership with Pacific  Energy . The  solar  farm is expected to be completed in the first half of 2026. Once fully operational, the renewable- energy   system  will supply 73% of the St Ives site's  power  needs and reduce the mine's carbon emissions by about 50% by 2030.

Gold  Fields principal specialist and  project  director Simon Schmid said the initiative forms part of the company's wider decarbonisation strategy across its global  operations  in Australia, South  Africa , Ghana, Canada, and South America.

'We're already benefiting from significant renewable- energy   generation  across our Australian  operations , including 18 MW at Gruyere, 10 MW at Granny Smith, and 35 MW at Agnew,' Schmid stated.

'We are excited to see the  project's contribution to our broader global decarbonisation strategy, which contains a target of 30% net emission reduction by 2030,  reinforcing  our long-term and growing commitment to sustainability,' he added.

Manufacturing  of the  turbines  is already under way, with their arrival in Western Australia expected in August 2025.  Construction  will begin the following month.

Meanwhile, as part of the St Ives renewables programme,  Gold  Fields has partnered with creative consultancy FORM  Building  a State of Creativity to engage local school students and emerging artists in a  project  to  design  artwork for the  turbines . Their artwork will be showcased across a lot of different applications, including on the turbines themselves, which will stand 130 m high once constructed.


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