thegoldvine 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 Australia 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 Agnew Gold Mine 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 Kalgoorlie 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.