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Q4 NOV-JAN 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Schools acknowledge Agnew’s support p2 An early Christmas present p2 Agnew families get together p3 World class safety milestone at St Ives p3 SHERP improves access at Granny p4 Camp inspires girls to mining p4 Success at CME Mines Rescue p5 Good food and good fun for seniors p5 Nearly there… at Gruyere p6 Sam a cycling Master p7 Geo Medal for Sarah p7 Helping Hands at St Ives p8 ACJV boosts Cosmo p8 Mo’s for men’s health p8 Remembering miners p9 Energy Matters p9 Heidi looks to the future for women in science p10 Santa no more! p10 Tri and you will succeed p11 Getting to Know Natasha Crowe p11 Christmas at Granny p12

on cost for six consecutive years. decreased by 25%, we lifted Our Australian operations delivered our safety engagements in the oursafety a very strong performance in 2018: workplace, and severity levels performance are low. • 886,000 ounces produced In 2019 our region will be Total Recordable Injury (+20,000 ounces above plan) Frequency Rate (TRIFR) developing a Courageous Safety • Granny Smith, St Ives, and Leadership Program for the Dear Colleagues Agnew all exceeded ounce and company and rollout of Vital I would like to wish all our cost expectations Behaviours to the other regions. employees, contractors, and JV • Capital spend was in line partners at Gold Road a very The Gruyere project at year end • Cash generation of A$267 million happy and successful 2019. was within 12% of completion. for a 19% free cash flow margin We remain on track to deliver first 9.94 t time of writing we are 7.20 • Contributed 43% of group gold in Q2 and handover for ramp 5.71 6.10 almost two-thirds through up of operations from Q2 onwards. gold production and revenue. TARGET A our first quarter of the new The project is now at the “business A special mention must be year, but it seems that our mines end” and will push our region’s MAR JUN SEP DEC made of our region and greater are positioned well to deliver on the annual gold production to in excess 2018 2018 2018 2018 company safety performance. challenges that this year will bring. of 1 million ounces per year and In 2018, the Australasia region The global Total Reportable Injury add a long-life asset to the portfolio. Frequency Rate (TRIFR) reduced has contributed very well to the The year ahead has many 24% by end year which represents Gold Fields end of year results, challenges and we have plenty the best single year ever on safety. continuing the region’s safe of projects in play across In the region, our TRIFR production and consistency of the business. Please remain reduced by 30% with the stand-out delivery against our business plans. supportive and respectful of our performer being Agnew with a 42% Globally Gold Fields achieved friends and colleagues as our reduction; the site was rewarded 2.063 million ounces of attributable people are our strength. with the Chairperson’s Safety Award gold production – ahead of revised for 2018. Safe production and delivery on If we cannot guidance and within 4% of original what we say we will do will carry Gruyere as a construction site guidance. All-In Sustaining Costs us through the year. mine safely, of US$981 per ounce and All-In has had no Lost Time Injuries and Costs of US$1,173 per ounce delivered a very low TRIFR result. Stuart Mathews we will not mine were below guidance. The group We have had greater days injury Executive Vice President has now delivered outperformance free, our injury duration rates Australasia Schools acknowledge Agnew’s support In recognition of the work that does with local schools Leinster Community School and Leonora District High School, representatives from the mine were invited to their 2018 end of year wind up presentations.

att Collier, Superintendent: enable a quality education program District High School to organise Environment and Nikki at Leinster Community School. for professional staff to visit the Levitt, Superintendent: M At Leonora, Agnew has previously school and talk to the kids so they HR attended both award nights participated in Return to School get an idea of the different job in early December. opportunities that are available program sponsorships, and is Matt Collier helps present the within Gold Fields. Matt presented the Senior and currently working with the Leonora citizenship awards Junior Citizenship awards at the Leinster Community School and delivered a speech on good citizenship to the students. Both Matt and Nikki also enjoyed a tour of the classrooms and viewed the work that the kids have been doing. Gold Fields’ involvement in both schools will continue during 2019, with Agnew also sponsoring the Father Project, to help fathers realise how important they are in a child’s life. In addition, the Gold Fields Australian Foundation supports the STEM lab which incorporates a problem solving approach that integrates key areas of science, technology, engineering and maths and an education assistant to help Leinster Community School wind up celebrations

key milestone was An early achieved at Agnew just A before Christmas with the delivery of the first buildings for Christmas the new Agnew Accommodation Village on 15 December 2018. present The buildings arrived in a convoy of four oversize trucks from Onslow and were laid down in the camp site to await the arrival of more buildings during December and January. A total of 35 accommodation blocks have arrived on site, with the McNally construction crew commencing installation work early in the new year.

2 Agnew families get together Agnew Gold Mine held three VB Family Day events at the South Perth Bowling Club during October and November, with all staff across site invited to attend including business partners.

he Family Days are part of Agnew’s Vital Behaviours with the aim of saying thank you to the families of our workforce for all they do T to support our staff and business partners while they work away. There were fairies, crafts, bubbleology, face painting, circus tricks, kids sporting activities, bowling and a BBQ lunch cooked by the Agnew Senior Leadership Team with 278 people in total attending.

t Ives’ LV Workshop work there and has had a definite reached the milestone in impact on this result.” September of achieving World class Stuart said he was very proud an incredible five years’ S of their achievement and urged recordable injury free – meaning no the team to continue to influence safety milestone RWI, LTI or MTI in the last five years. positive performance and safety While it’s just a small team, they behaviours across the greater do a lot of manual work which St Ives business. at St Ives really highlights the magnitude of Graeme Ovens, Vice President this achievement. Operations, said that this level Stuart Mathews, EVP Australasia, of achievement doesn’t come said that such results do not without a significant amount of happen without full engagement effort from all concerned. and socialisation of the workplace. “This stellar safety achievement shows the importance of The team should be extremely keeping an eye on the health and proud of what they have wellbeing of your work colleagues, achieved,” said Graeme. as you are the closest to them “This is world class! outside of family,” said Stuart. “I actually remember the standard of housekeeping at the LV The LV Workshop team was The LV Workshop team: Back: Ben Ace, Luke Slater, Matt Harding, Workshop during my time at St presented a plaque in recognition Warren Pilton. Front: Oliver Casanova, Norm Karafilis, Ferdi Garcia Ives, and it is a credit to all who of the milestone.

3 Camp inspires girls to mining Curtin University alongside STEM Outreach organised a five-day camp to in October for 24 girls aged 15 to 17 from all around WA.

he camp was intended to to OHS personnel and geologists. open the minds of young It was great to see Superintendent Tstudents to the various HR Rochelle Snell fly the flag career paths that are available for St Ives and give some helpful SHERP improves within the mining industry. and valuable advice to the Agnew’s Exploration Geologist Alex younger generation. Forster attended the camp and was Overall the consensus was that access at Granny on hand to answer any questions the majority of the group was the girls had regarding the industry interested in environmental ranny Smith Gold Mine has recently taken delivery of or geology while also translating sciences or engineering. After a the very first SHERP all-terrain vehicle on Australian mining terms into digestible chunks. quick presentation about exploring Gsoil, providing greater access to the difficult and harsh During the camp, the girls visited in rainforests and deserts, hopefully conditions of the Lake Carey salt lake. the Evolution Mungari project, Alex was able to encourage a handful into licking rocks while Explorers have long been challenged by remote and difficult KSGM Super Pit and BHP having amazing adventures within to access areas. Exploring under salt lakes still poses a Nickel concentrator. If they were the exploration realm. very difficult undertaking today, due to ever-changing and not out exploring open pits or unpredictable ground conditions. mining operations, they were at The camp highlighted that the the WASM campus playing with current young generation are Granny Smith currently holds exploration rights to an area of simulators for operating a jumbo, bright, innovative and passionate. more than 900 square kilometres, 240 square kilometres of in the lab coating a five cent piece Hopefully we will see some of which are covered by Lake Carey – which in large parts is still with copper or panning for gold. these girls as part of the Gold un- or under explored due to these challenging conditions. A networking night was set up Fields family in the years to come. In early 2017, Granny Smith’s Exploration team became for the girls to meet industry It looks like the future of mining is aware of SHERP, which was designed and constructed with professionals, from engineers, in safe hands. durability, simplicity and low maintenance requirements in mind. The team could see that this vehicle had the potential to be a valuable alternative to access Lake Carey and increase safety, availability and productivity. To introduce this new technology to Australia, however, a “first mover effort” and direct liaison with the manufacturer was required, and it took 18 months of effort from the team to finally make their dream a reality. After final assembly and commissioning, Granny’s SHERP completed a successful maiden voyage through some of Lake Carey’s most difficult terrain. The success of this first outing upheld the expectation of gaining a valuable lake access vehicle that will be able to cope with the harsh salt lake conditions, offer alternative people and emergency transport, explore lake islands with an extremely low environmental footprint, and scout for tracks to new and exciting exploration spaces. Alex Forster with some of the girls

4 Success at CME Mines Rescue Gold Fields Australia had great success at the CME Mines Rescue Competition in October – both as hosts and competitors.

s hosts of the event, The CME Mines Rescue was competition is over 100 years old, widely applauded for its and Gold Fields Australia is proud A excellent preparation, to support and participate in the condition of the site and support this important local event. throughout the competition. Our results this year were The Hamlet underground team outstanding, with St Ives finishing did a remarkable job leading up to in overall third place, Granny and on the day of the event, and Smith in fifth and Agnew in sixth. were responsible for escorting all Notable performances included the personnel to and from the surface St Ives Lions winning the Ropes over the two days of competition. Rescue and Theory category and A total of 43 employees from St St Ives’ Jessica Bennett being Ives volunteered for jobs ranging runner up in the Best Captain St Ives Lions celebrate their third place finish. from being a casualty, to score award, while Agnew’s Sean Front: Nathan Rowe, Richie Tapara, Jess Bennett (Captain), keeping, to just being an all-round Davies snagged top spot in the Grant Bailey, Daniel O’Donnell, Marty Keates. Back: March Tapara, runner and doing the things that Incident Management Scenario. Kristy Marshall, Jemma Castle, and a competition official just needed to be done.

Good food and good fun for seniors n November, four St Ives St Ives is very proud of the work employees volunteered their it does in the community and the time to assist the Shire of volunteers felt very fortunate to ICoolgardie host its 2018 have this opportunity to assist in Seniors’ Christmas Luncheon bringing a little extra Christmas St Ives volunteers Shaun McGuirk, Sue Gianni, Marg Densley and as part of a newly established cheer to the local people. Danuta Power relationship with the Shire to assist in supporting the community. More than 80 seniors attended the luncheon from Kambalda, Coolgardie and Norseman. The day included a full three-course lunch, games, entertainment from the local schools, door prizes and just all round good fun, good conversations and a lot of laughs.

5 Nearly there… at Gruyere

Steve Price – Gruyere General Manager; Manie McDonald – GJV Project Director; Stuart Mathews – EVP: Australasia; Sheila Dunlop – PA to EVP: Australasia; Richard Butcher – EVP: Technical

6 Sam a cycling Master

Sam Flockhart, Commercial Manager, Next the riders moved to Paynseville for the criterium races. Gruyere JV recently competed in the Masters “There was certainly a lot of pain Nationals Cycling Championships in Victoria. to be had that day,” said Sam. “My race was in the afternoon he event ran over four lots of hugs, smiles and high fives and consisted of a 40 minute days, and consisted of as I headed up to the podium,” race around a one-kilometre 16 kilometre time trial, she said. circuit. There was a lot of jostling a 76 kilometre road race T Next came the road race, which for position early in the race with and a 40 minute criterium race. Sam had to endure on an overcast the pace being something I was After training for the event for the and wet day in Swan Reach. unable to hold,” she said. majority of 2018, Sam headed over The race was full of drama Sam settled in to a rhythm and east to compete against riders from including a mid-race crash and aimed to stay in the race just as all over Australia in her age category. the fast escape of one rider in long as she could. Spotting two First up was the time trial, held in Sam’s category from the peloton – riders ahead of her, she worked Metung in East Gippsland. the eventual winner, who finished hard until she caught them and tried to work with them to stay away “This was my first time trial at more than eight minutes in front of from the fast chasing lead group. national level,” said Sam. “To say the next rider in her age group. the nerves were at a premium is Sam and the rest of the peloton “There were various groups of Geo an understatement.” continued doggedly, until a bell Perth riders dotted around the course and their encouragement “A few other riders had made the sounded for the last lap and the pace picked up. each lap really kept me going and Medal trek from WA so the sight of a few aiming for that next lap,” said Sam. familiar faces helped put me a bit “Try as I might to go around the more at ease,” she said. outside of the group, it was not “However, at the 25 minute mark, a move that was going to stick, I was caught, and the race was for Taking off down the ramp, Sam done for me,” she said. could hear the cheers of the WA given the calibre of the other supporters and she quickly settled riders,” said Sam. After an eventful few days, Sam headed home for a few weeks Sarah into a rhythm as the event went on. “I quickly found myself going out the back door and wondering rest and riding her bike at a “My main aim of course was not ongratulations to how I was going to get back on leisurely pace while deciding what to be caught by the rider behind Dr Sarah Jones, to the group or at least make it to events to target next. me, who started a minute behind,” Chief Structural the finish without losing too much “One thing I do know is that there’s C said Sam. Geologist, who has been time,” she said. a high probability the Masters “At the halfway turnaround point I awarded the A. B. Edwards National Cycling Championships was a bit excited to see an official Luckily for Sam, the pace came Medal by the Geological will be on the calendar again for car just ahead of me which meant off a bit during the last climb, and Society of Australia’s 2019!” she said. I had nearly caught the girl in front she finished in a creditable eighth (GSA) Specialist Group – which I did early on the return place in her category. for Economic Geology. leg,” she said. The A. B. Edwards “However, I also knew that the medal is awarded for the rider behind was approaching best paper on aspects fast. This gave me the incentive I of economic geology needed to push a bit harder.” published in each volume of the Australian Journal When Sam crossed the finish line of Earth Sciences. she had no idea of her official time or placing, and took a few moments Sarah’s winning paper to get her breath back before was entitled Geology seeking out her coach and friends. and geochemistry of fault- hosted hydrothermal and “Imagine my surprise when they sedimentary manganese told me I was in third place at that deposits in the Oakover stage,” said Sam. “Now I just had Basin, east , to wait it out and see if anyone . after me pulled out a faster time.” “And then the confirmation came Sam (right) sets her sights on a fellow competitor – I did come third – so there were

7 Helping Hands at St Ives

An initiative of St Ives’ Processing Department, the Helping Hands project now acts as a continual reminder of the reasons why we come to work and go home safely every day. Families were asked to leave t Ives held its annual their hand prints on a specially Family Day onsite again prepared board, which is now on in November, with all display outside the entrance to the S the usual activities for St Ives processing plant. big and little kids alike. Employees have to pass by the But this year, they opted for board every time they come and go something a little different which from the mill and so it is a constant has proven to be an important, visual reminder of our families and lasting legacy for the site. why we want to be safe.

ACJV boosts Cosmo

uring October, ACJV representatives along with Gruyere JV operational representatives attended a morning tea donation function held at Cosmo DNewberry Aboriginal Community School. During the morning tea, ACJV donated funds to the Cosmo Community to help refurbish their basketball court which hasn’t been functional for a few years due to storm damage. Around 30 representatives from the community, including One of the Vital Behaviour plays children and adults, attended the event which was a great in the Processing Team is to success. The Cosmo Community were very welcoming and Mo’s for promote mental health for both the morning tea was enjoyed by all. women and men, and the site’s men’s involvement with Movember has helped to promote awareness of men’s health, whether it relates health to testicular cancer or even just speaking up when times are tough. A group of philanthropic The team raised $2,886 and individuals in the Agnew Agnew matched their fundraising Processing Team took on efforts dollar for dollar to donate the Movember challenge to this great cause. during November.

8 Energy Matters

In 2018, Gold Fields Australia had a group objective of removing 10% of our budgeted energy consumption through the implementation of energy saving and business improvement initiatives. During the year, we worked with the BI departments at each of the operations to identify initiatives that had been implemented and that could contribute towards the reduction target. In real energy terms the 10% target amounted to 290,861 GJ for St Ives’ Annika Turnbull and Tim Hewitt Gold Fields Australia. By year end we had achieved 215,287 GJ or 74% of that target through the measurement and verification process of the appropriate BI initiatives. Remembering The 215,287 GJ of energy saved represents the energy use of 7,500 standard houses in Australia. Each of the operations made a meaningful contribution towards the miners target as can be seen in the graph below: In late November every year, the Saint Barbara’s Miners Memorial Service is held in Kalgoorlie to honour those who have lost their Gold Fields 2018 Energy Reduction (GJ) lives working in the mining industry over the past 100 years. 250,000 The memorial service is a solemn reminder to us all of the 200,000 importance of safety. Saint Barbara is the patron saint of - 47,78 3 miners and her name and legend are evoked to protect all 150,000 workers in our industry. -87,805 100,000 215,287 Representatives from St Ives attended the service and laid 50,000 a wreath at the memorial statue in St Barbara’s Square in -79,465 Hannan Street. 0 GFA Agnew St Ives Granny Smith

With the saving of energy comes a saving in carbon emissions. In 2018, though the energy savings above, and with the operation of the Granny Smith gas power station, Gold Fields Australia saved 34,000 tonnes of carbon emissions which is about 8.6% of our total carbon footprint and equivalent to more than 8,000 hot air balloons worth of gas. Included in the above emissions savings was the 13,000 tonnes savings we delivered and sold to the Australian government as part of our commitment and obligations to its Emissions Reduction Fund. We will continue to do so for another five years. Our commitment to emissions reduction continues in 2019 with renewable power generation installations underway at Agnew and Granny Smith, including two solar farms. In China, one company aligned their solar arrays in the form of a panda! Do you have any ideas of what shape we could depict at Agnew and Granny Smith if we had the opportunity to do something similar? Let me know. Remember – green is the new gold! Alex Kraan [email protected]

9 Thank you to Heidi for taking ownership of this process, Heidi looks to the future representing Gold Fields and being such a passionate and inclusive voice for our company on such a critical issue affecting for women in science the resources industry as a whole. Thank you also to Ian Pegg, In the 2018-19 Federal Budget, the Department Leanne Waddell, Elaine Murphy, Gavin Mann, Sri Lloyd and Annika of Industry, Innovation and Science was allocated Expected outcomes of the Decadal Plan are: Turnbull, who were vital in the $4.5 million over four years under the Australian process of coordinating group • long-term improvements responses and feedback for the Technology and Science Growth Plan to formulate in gender equity; Gold Fields submission. a Women in Science Strategy, including a decade- • improved quality in Gold Fields looks forward to STEM skills and expertise long plan for women in science. participating and being a strong in Australia; contributor to the actions resulting he Minister for Industry, meaningful insights to share. • increased access for from the Women in STEM Decadal Science and Technology, Written submissions were required women and girls to Plan. Internally this feedback is Karen Andrews, believes to be prepared in answer to a participate in STEM; being used, in conjunction with that if we can increase T number of specific key questions. • expanded career and the feedback from the Climate participation in science, technology, Heidi coordinated feedback to the Survey to determine the overall engineering and mathematics study opportunities for questions from key focus groups Diversity Strategy for the region, (STEM) by girls and women, we women; and at each of the Gold Fields Australia and develop a plan for any will strengthen Australia’s research, operations and Perth Office, and • benefits to business changes or actions to address this scientific and business capability. then submitted the collaborative from increased access pressing and industry wide issue. One of the key initiatives, the responses on behalf of Gold Fields. to STEM skills. Women in STEM Decadal Plan, The feedback was rich in quality is to develop a 10-year roadmap information from an equal split of for achieving sustained increases men and women of different ages in women and girls in STEM, from 14 different business areas in terms of their participation across the company. and retention from school and throughout their careers. Heidi represented Gold Fields Australia at the public stakeholder The Decadal Plan will rely heavily meeting for the Australian on feedback gathered from a Academy of Science consultation broad process of consultation for the Women in STEM Decadal with individuals and organisations Plan in Perth in early October. throughout Australia who are associated with STEM. The interactive workshop focused on providing actions for When Dr Heidi Pass, Chief overcoming barriers that hamper Geochemist, heard of the call for women’s and girls’ full participation input to the Plan, she believed this in STEM. These workshops and Suzy Urbaniak (Expert Working Group member – Women in STEM was an opportunity for Gold Fields the process of gathering feedback Decadal Plan), Elissa Edward (Geologist, Sandfire Resources), Dr Australia to make a contribution from the working groups on Heidi Pass (Chief Geochemist) and Dr Alison Fowler (Acting General to our industry, and that the men potential solutions will be ongoing. Manager, STEM Strategy and Coordination, Science & Innovation) and women of Gold Fields had

Santa no more! Peter Crawley, Central Master Cataloguer again sacrificed his luscious locks and facial hair for Shear and Shave Santa for Cancer. The Shear and Shave was carried out at Nollamara RSL on 23 December and raised over $400. Before After

10 Tri and you Getting to know… will succeed Natasha Crowe Gold Fields St Ives was pleased to attended Ashburton Public School once again sponsor the Kalgoorlie and then Cannington Senior High corporate triathlon in December. School, before making her own way in the world which included he event, run by the Kalgoorlie Triathlon Club, a stint at Spotlight as an on-road brings together teams of three people from across soft furnishings consultant. the region to tackle a short course sprint triathlon “Yep – I used to measure up T (300 metre swim, 9 kilometre ride and 3 kilometre run). people’s windows and sell them St Ives fielded two of the 40 teams which competed, both of ranny Smith’s Natasha curtains!” she laughed. which were first timers to the sport. Crowe has long wanted to make a difference On the home front, Natasha enjoys Team Brendamon, with members Damon Symons, Brendan in this industry. spending time with her brood of Viney and Dennis Adusei, had a great start with Damon exiting G both humans and furry friends. the pool in second place in the men’s team category, however In June 2018, she achieved her goal of becoming Shift Supervisor, which “My partner Debby and I have been in the excitement of the race, Brendan made an ‘unplanned’ together for 20 years,” said Natasha. deviation during the ride which dropped them to last place. has motivated Natasha to really get stuck in and expand her experience “We have two amazing younger Unfortunately for Dennis he was left with an impossible task and knowledge even more. peeps, Aiden and Kaitlin, as well in a field of strong runners but none the less he put in a great as the most beautiful doggo in the effort to finish the course. “Being involved in every aspect of building the mine and the world, plus a cat who hasn’t worked The second team The JFS Athletes, with members Francesca workforce is a privilege I never out that’s she’s not welcome yet.” Cichero, Shannon Hauraki and Josh Welsh, had a similarly thought I would have the In her leisure time, Natasha enjoys strong start in the pool with Francesca exiting the pool in third opportunity to do,” said Natasha. working with wood, building and place in the mixed team category. creating all kinds of things from Shannon’s ride, although flawless compared to poor Brendan’s, clocks to cupboards. was in a strong field which unfortunately saw the team slip down The role is amazing. It’s As far as travel goes, Natasha the rankings a fair bit. Josh pushed home hard with a run pace challenging, frustrating, yet so and her family have been to New of 4 minutes and 45 seconds per kilometre, taking the team to rewarding and heaps of fun at Zealand a few times. a respectable 13th place from 18 teams. the same time,” she said. “It’s a beautiful country, full of great With the sponsorship provided by St Ives, the Kalgoorlie people,” she said. “But in all honesty, Triathlon Club was able to support numerous local businesses my favourite destination is home – around town. Podium prize packs contained local produce like Starting her career in various because the dog lives there.” honey, soap, chocolates and customised ‘triathlon’ cookies. mining roles at Barminco, ACM and Natasha says that the best thing Norseman Gold, Natasha joined about working at Gold Fields is being Gold Fields at Cave Rocks in 2012 surrounded by like-minded people. as a Bogger Operator and Long “I love the shared passion for what Hole Driller. She then moved on as we do, and the support that the Bogger Operator firstly to Athena/ company gives us to do it to the Hamlet in 2015, then Granny Smith best of our abilities,” she said. in April 2018. It wasn’t long after this last move that she was offered “I try to find positives in all the Shift Supervisor role. situations so I can learn, grow and be a better human.” “I thought I knew a lot about mining, but I’ve been introduced to and learned so much more since taking on this position,” said Natasha. “It really has been an amazing journey, and one I hope to continue for a while,” she said. Brendan Viney, Dennis Adusei, Damon Symons, Growing up in Gosnells with her Shannon Hauraki, Francesca Cichero and Josh Welsh parents and brother, Natasha Natasha and her dog Jessie

11 Christmas at Granny. Granny Smith employees celebrated Christmas in style on the lawn at Royal Perth Yacht Club on 24 November.

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