Gold Fields Limited



Gloomy start to September

A market rout on September’s first trading day in the U.S. might be a sign of further carnage to come this fall. For the report period ended Sept. 3, the major indices retested post-9-11 lows, with th…


Rally leaves golds behind

A strong rally in the U.S. markets over the report period Aug. 13-20 brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 4.6% and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 up 6%.The Dow finished the period at 8,872.0…


WMC suffers headaches at Olympic Dam

WMC (WMC-N) has run into more operational difficulties at its massive Olympic Dam copper smelter in South Australia, and will suffer depressed earnings for the next 18 months as a result.The company h…


Gold’s prospects dominate Aussie mining conference

Kalgoorlie, Australia — Consolidation in the gold mining sector and an optimistic outlook for the price of bullion over the next 18 months had delegates in high-spirits at the 10th annual Diggers & D…




Arctic resources snowball (August 12, 2002)

Drilling by South Africa’s Gold Fields (gfi-n) and Finnish-based Outokumpu has boosted the resource estimate at the partners’ Arctic Platinum Partnership project in northern Finland.Based on an additi…


Newmont rises with strong quarter

Newmont Mining turned in its first quarterly report since its mega-merger with Franco-Nevada Mining and Normandy Mining, and the results augur well for the company’s future. The company, now the world…


Proposals sink SA shares

The stocks of South African-based miners headed south during the report period ended July 30 as political risk made a stark reappearance.In a document leaked to a Johannesburg-based web site in late J…


PEOPLE (August 05, 2002)

Alcoa — Russell Porter appointed VP and deputy general counsel.Anglo American — Mark Moody-Stuart appointed chairman.Apollo Gold — G.W. Thompson appointed non-executive chairman of the…


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