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GFI - Gold Fields Limited - Fatal Accident At Driefontein
Gold Fields Limited
(Registration Number 1968/004880/06)
("Gold Fields")
Share Code: GFI
ISIN: ZAE000018123
MEDIA RELEASE
FATAL ACCIDENT AT DRIEFONTEIN
Johannesburg, 15 October 2008: Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (NYSE, JSE,
DIFX: GFI) regrets to announce that one employee was fatally injured, one
employee is trapped approximately 3,000 meters below surface and four employees
were injured, two of them seriously, after two seismic events occurred in short
succession at the number 5 Shaft of the Driefontein Gold Mine, near
Carletonville, earlier today.
Proto teams are at the scene of the accident searching for the trapped employee.
The injured employees are in the process of being evacuated to the mine
hospital.
The first seismic event, which measured 2.4 on the Richter scale, occurred at
13:17 today, approximately 3,000 meters below surface. This was followed by a
second seismic event in the same vicinity at 13:55, measuring approximately 1.0
on the Richter scale.
All operations at the Driefontein Gold mine have been stopped. Further
information will be made public as it becomes available.
Enquiries:
Willie Jacobsz
Direct: 018 781 8861
Mobile: (001) 857 241 7127
or
Daniel Thole
Mobile: +27 82 929 3672
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About Gold Fields
Gold Fields Limited is one of the world`s largest unhedged producers of gold
with attributable production of 3,64 million ounces per annum from eight
operating mines in South Africa, Ghana and Australia. A ninth mine, Cerro Corona
Gold/Copper mine in Peru, commenced production in August 2008 at an initial rate
of approximately 375,000 gold equivalent ounces per annum. Gold Fields aims to
reach a production rate of approximately 4.0 million ounces per annum during the
March quarter of 2009. The company has total attributable ore reserves of 83
million ounces and mineral resources of 251 million ounces. Gold Fields is
listed on the JSE Limited (primary listing),New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and
Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) New Euronext in Brussels (NYX) and
Swiss Exchange (SWX). For more information please visit the Gold Fields website
at www.goldfields.co.za.
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