2024
Gold Fields Limited
Integrated Annual Report
Where we operate
Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with nine mines in Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Chile and Peru, and one project in Canada. Learn more about our operations and global performance.
Canada
The Windfall project is among the largest gold deposits in Canada, and the top 10 gold deposit globally by head grade.
Windfall: Underground gold project. Development dependent on environmental approval and feasibility study1
Windfall
Chile
Salares Norte, our newest copper-silver mine, will be among the prospective lowest-cost mines globally.
Salares Norte: Gold-silver open-pit mine with 11-year LOM
Peru
Cerro Corona – located high in the Andes mountains – is the only mine in our portfolio with copper as a by-product.
Cerro Corona: Open pit with gold-copper flotation plant with six-year LOM
Cerro Corona Salares NorteGhana
We have two operations in Ghana, including Africa's largest open-pit gold mine.
Tarkwa: Open-pit mine with 11-year LOM
Damang (currently processing stockpiles)
Damang Tarkwa
South Africa
South Deep is one of the deepest, bulk-mechanised mines in the world, and one of our four multi-decade assets, with substantial resources and a long life.
South Deep: Underground operation with 85‑year LOM2
South DeepAustralia
Our mines in Australia account for almost half of Group production, and comprise low-cost, long-life mines. We also have a strong pipeline of projects to ensure Mineral Reserves replacement and life extension.
Gruyere Granny Smith
Gruyere: (50/50 JV with Gold Road Resources) One active open-pit operation and an eight-year LOM
Granny Smith: One active underground operation with 10-year LOM
St Ives: Two underground and two open-pit active operations, with nine-year LOM
Agnew: Three active underground operations with five-year LOM
St Ives AgnewOur global performance
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Safety | ||
| Fatal incidents | 2 | 2 |
| Serious injuries | 3RA | 6 |
| Workforce | ||
| Employees | 6,5606 | 6,297 |
| Contractors | 16,330 | 15,229 |
| Attributable production (koz) | 2,071 | 2,304 |
| AIC (US$/eq-oz) | 1,873 | 1,512 |
| Adjusted free cash-flow (FCF) (US$m)3 | 605 | 367 |
| Gold Mineral Resources (Moz)4 | 42.00 | 40.50 |
| Gold Mineral Reserves (Moz)5 | 44.30 | 44.60 |
| Carbon emissions (kt CO2e) | 2,455 | 2,582 |
| Gender diversity (% of total) | 25RA | 25 |
Contribution to Group attributable production
Life-of-mine (LOM) is as of 31 December 2024, reported under the SAMREC Code and the US SEC's S-K regulation, and only includes Mineral Reserves
| 1 | LOM to be determined after feasibility studies |
| 2 | Based on a maximum Reserve scheduled production of 11 tons of gold per year |
| 3 | Cash-flow from operating activities less net capital expenditure, environmental payments and lease payment |
| 4 | Attributable, Measured, Indicated and Inferred Gold Mineral Resources EMR, excluding Asanko |
| 5 | Attributable Proved and Probable gold Mineral Reserves, excluding Asanko |
| 6 | Includes Windfall |
