Vishnu Pillay to Head up Gold Fields Operations in South Africa
April 04 2008 - 4:20AM
PR Newswire (US)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold
Fields Limited ("Gold Fields") (NYSE, JSE, DIFX: GFI) today
announced that, further to the executive management changes
announced on Monday, 30 March 2008, Vishnu Pillay has been promoted
to Executive Vice President and Head of South African Operations,
to replace Terence Goodlace who was promoted to Chief Operating
Officer for the Group, and will join the Gold Fields Executive
Committee. Vishnu, who takes up his new position on 1 May 2008, was
previously Vice President and Head of Operations of the Driefontein
Gold Mine. Terence Goodlace said: "Vishnu's appointment will ensure
continuity at our South African operations. He is well respected
and, apart from a brief period outside Gold Fields with the Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as Executive
Director: CSIR Mining Technology and Group Executive: Institutional
Planning and Operations for the CSIR, has been with Gold Fields for
22 years." To fill the position vacated by Vishnu, Peter Turner,
currently Vice President and Head of Operations of Kloof Gold Mine
will move to Driefontein Gold Mine in the same position. To fill
Peter's position at Kloof Gold Mine, Rodney Hart, currently, Senior
Manager: Operations at that mine, will be promoted to the position
of Vice President and Head of Operations of Kloof Gold Mine. These
appointments are also effective from 1 May 2008. In another move,
Stuart Allan, has assumed responsibility for the South Deep Gold
Mine as the Vice President and Head of Operations. About Gold
Fields Gold Fields Limited is one of the world's largest unhedged
producers of gold with attributable production of more than four
million ounces per annum from eight operating mines in South
Africa, Ghana and Australia. A ninth mine, the Cerro Corona
Gold/Copper mine in Peru, is expected to commence production by mid
2008 at an initial rate of approximately 400,000 gold equivalent
ounces per annum. The company has total attributable ore reserves
of 92 million ounces and mineral resources of 252 million ounces.
Gold Fields employs some 53,000 permanent employees across its
operations and is listed on the JSE Limited South Africa (primary
listing), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Dubai
International Financial Exchange (DIFX). All of Gold Fields'
operations are ISO14001 certified. For more information please
visit the Gold Fields website at http://www.goldfields.co.za/.
DATASOURCE: Gold Fields Limited CONTACT: Enquires: Reidwaan Wookay,
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+27(0)84-878-4566; Andrew Davidson, Tel: +27-11-644-2638, Fax:
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