GOLD FIELDS - Risk management

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Gold Fields (following the unbundling of Sibanye Gold) is a large unhedged producer of gold with attributable annual production of approximately 2 million gold ounces from six operating mines in Australia, Ghana, Peru and South Africa. The new Gold Fields also has an extensive and diverse global growth pipeline with four major projects in resource development and feasibility. The new Gold Fields has total attributable gold Mineral Reserves of 54.9 million ounces and Mineral Resources of 125.5 million ounces. Gold Fields is listed on the JSE Limited (primary listing), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ Dubai Limited, Euronext in Brussels (NYX) and the Swiss Exchange (SWX). In February 2013, Gold Fields unbundled its KDC and Beatrix mines in South Africa into a separately listed company, Sibanye Gold.

Risk management policy

Gold Fields Limited strives to manage risk effectively in order to protect the company’s assets, stakeholders, environment and reputation and to ensure achievement of the business objectives.

The aim is to achieve a fuller understanding of the reward/risk balance and seek to reduce the likelihood and consequences of adverse effects to acceptable levels. To achieve continual improvement in our management of risk, thereby enhancing the degree of certainty in achieving our objectives.

The Gold Fields Board and it’s various Sub Committees have undertaken to address the need for enterprise wide risk management within the Group and have tasked management with developing and maintaining the necessary systems to give effect to this responsibility.

The company will endeavour to develop, implement and maintain sound risk management practices and systems that are consistent with international best practice and that will address these objectives:

Identify, assess and manage risks in an effective and efficient manner;

Make decisions based on a comprehensive view of the reward to risk balance;

Provide greater certainty on the delivery of objectives; and

Satisfy our corporate governance requirements.

In pursuing these objectives the company will endeavour to:

Implement a comprehensive and systematic risk assessment and reporting process across the Group;

Create an environment that controls and mitigates risks within the accepted Gold Fields Limited Risk tolerance;

Integrate the outputs of specialist risk functions to provide an informed view of the risks associated with our business activities;

Heighten risk management awareness in our business processes, with an emphasis of risk management instilled in all associated stakeholders;

Foster a culture of continuous improvement in risk management through audit and review processes; and

Create an appropriate risk financing programme, based on the risk profiles developed in the assessment process.