Gold Fields going greener and cleaner across broad front

Gold mining company Gold Fields, which this week announced the board’s green light for a 40 MW solar photovoltaic plant at the South Deep mine, near Carletonville, intends taking short- medium- and long-term steps to lower emissions in underground mining in general and at South Deep in particular. In a written response to Mining Weekly on what emission-lowering steps the company intended taking in its underground mines, Gold Fields executive VP South Africa Martin Preece outlined five the measures that are envisaged as:

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