Gold Fields Limited Q4 Gold Production Falls Slightly from Q3

Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) announced that production in the December 2012 quarter (Q4 2012) is expected to be 753,000 gold equivalent ounces, down slightly from Q3.

As quoted in the press release:

The international regions had an excellent quarter contributing 471,000 (Q3 2012 – 424,000 and Q4 2011 – 449,000) attributable gold equivalent ounces with all of the international operations achieving an improved performance quarter on quarter. In particular, the Tarkwa Gold mine recorded a strong improvement from the prior quarter with production of 187,800 ounces of gold (Q3 2012 – 169,400 ounces).

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