(You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Gold Fields website) Goldfields Media Release Eskom Withdraws Authorisation for Mining Industry to Increase Electricity Load From 80% to 90% 31 January 2008 Johannesburg, Thursday, January 31, 2008: Gold Fields Limited (“Gold Fields”) (NYSE, JSE, DIFX: GFI) is disappointed to confirm that Eskom has informed the Company that authorisation to increase electricity load from 80% to 90% by this evening, has been temporarily withdrawn in order to “protect further frequency decay and system instability”.
To comply with this instruction, and in the interest of safety, production at Gold Fields’ operations is being pulled back to the 80% power level.
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