Gold Fields ESG overview

NICK HOLLAND

19 October 2020

Forward Looking Statements

Terms Of Use

Certain statements in this document constitute "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

In particular, the forward looking statements in this document include among others those relating to the Damang Exploration Target Statement; the Far Southeast Exploration Target Statement; commodity prices; demand for gold and other metals and minerals; interest rate expectations; exploration and production costs; levels of expected production; Gold Fields' growth pipeline; levels and expected benefits of current and planned capital expenditures; future reserve, resource and other mineralisation levels; and the extent of cost efficiencies and savings to be achieved. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other important factors include among others: economic, business and political conditions in South Africa, Ghana, Australia, Peru and elsewhere; the ability to achieve anticipated efficiencies and other cost savings in connection with past and future acquisitions, exploration and development activities; decreases in the market price of gold and/or copper; hazards associated with underground and surface gold mining; labour disruptions; availability terms and deployment of capital or credit; changes in government regulations, particularly taxation and environmental regulations; and new legislation affecting mining and mineral rights; changes in exchange rates; currency devaluations; the availability and cost of raw and finished materials; the cost of energy and water; inflation and other macro-economic factors, industrial action, temporary stoppages of mines for safety and unplanned maintenance reasons; and the impact of the AIDS and other occupational health risks experienced by Gold Fields' employees.

These forward looking statements speak only as of the date of this document. Gold Fields undertakes no obligation to update publicly or release any revisions to these forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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Agenda

Section 1: ESG Integration

• ESG strategic priorities

• External codes and standards

• Corporate Governance

Section 2: Social

  • Value Creation
    • Workforce
  • Community Relations
  • Shared Value
  • Human Rights

Section 3: Safety & Health

  • Safety
  • Health
  • Covid-19mitigation

Section 4: Environment

  • Energy
  • Climate change
  • Water
  • Tailings management
  • Integrated mine closure

Gold Fields' ESG team

Name

Title

Naseem Chohan

EVP: Sustainable Development

Rosh Bardien

EVP: People & Organisational Effectiveness

Taryn Harmse

EVP: Legal & Compliance

Avishkar Nagaser

EVP: Investor Relations & Corporate Affairs

Andrew Parsons

VP: Group Sustainable Development

Allison Burger

VP: Community Relations

Nosimo Macatsha

Group Head of Water Management

Charlene Wrigley

Group Sustainable Development Manager

Johan Boshoff

Group Head of Tailings

Gold Fields ESG overview | August 2020

ESG

Integration

Top five sustainability priorities

Safety & Health

Energy

Integrated Mine

Water

Societal

& Climate Change

Closure

Stewardship

Acceptance

• Prioritisation of

• Contain energy

• Integrated

• Security of supply

• Build strong

safety

costs

approach to mine

• Water efficiency

relationships with

• Safety leadership

• Energy security

closure planning

our stakeholders

• Water recycling

and management

• Shared Value

and programmes

• Decarbonisaton of

• Concurrent

and conservation

• Focus on

• Social risk and

our mines

• Catchment area

reclamation

occupational

• Renewable energy

impact

• Liability

approach

disease

management

opportunities

• Covid-19

optimisation

• Stakeholder

• Climate change

prevention and

communication

mitigation and

mitigation

adaptation

Integrated Thinking: Integration of ESG into operational management

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Top

Human

Resources

priorities

Culture

Culture

HR

Focus

Areas

Culture

Culture

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Strategic objectives and 2020 Group Scorecard

ESG objectives contribute to 55% of our Group Scorecard objectives

LAG INDICATORS

LEAD INDICATORS

FINANCIAL

STAKEHOLDER

INTERNAL

BUSINESS

PROCESSES

ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITY

Reduce debt

Increase free cashflow margin

Improve capital returns

Improve reputation with stakeholders

(Analysts and investors, employees, government, communities)

Improve strategic

Improve capital

Improve safety, occupational

Improve

planning process

discipline process

health & wellbeing

organisational culture

Improve efficiencies &

Improve quality of

Improve technology

Improve people

Improve governance &

security of utilities

our portfolio

& innovation

capacity

compliance

(energy & water)

Safety Integrity Respect Responsibility Innovation Delivery

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Board of Directors

King IV Code directs our approach to corporate governance

  • Gold Fields complies with the King IV Code of Corporate Governance
  • One tier board: 2 executive directors, 9 non-executive, of which 3 female
  • Independent, non-executivechairperson
  • Publicly available board diversity policy
  • Current average board tenure is 6.5 years
  • Board committees (all have non-executive chairpersons):
    • Audit
    • Capital Projects
    • Investment (ad hoc committee)
    • Nominating and Governance
    • Remuneration
    • Risk
    • Safety, Health and Sustainable Development
    • Social, Ethics and Transformation
  • Oversees the Gold Fields Code of Conduct which ensures ethical business practices
  • Compliance with JSE, NYSE regulations

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Recognition of our achievements

And the global standards and guidelines we implement and report against

Top 30 Responsible Investment Index

1st Report submitted as part of our 2020 GRI Report

FTSE4Good

Index Series

4th among gold miners

Full compliance with King IV Code

Mining and

"Excellence" in

Resources

Integrated

sector award

Reporting

(4th year running)

Awards

GRI Standards:

BBB rating

4th / 61

Core option

mining

companies

Global standards applied at our operations: International Cyanide Management Code; ISO 14001, 27001, 45001 and 50001; Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.

Gold Fields ESG overview | August 2020

Report to

Stakeholders

Report to Stakeholders 2019/2020

Released our 1st Report to Stakeholders this week

Report to Stakeholders

• Contains our value creation to our key stakeholder groups - at both Group and national level

Key stakeholders:

• Workforce

• Host communities

• Governments

• Investors and analysts

• Suppliers and contractors

• Data covers primarily 2019, but also, where relevant, H1 2020

• Report also looks at key risks and opportunities in our engagement with these stakeholders

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Stakeholder relations and engagement

Improving our reputation with key stakeholders

Grievance

Engagements

Continuous

Themes

    • Wages and benefits
      • Skills development
        • Covid-19
  • Flexible work schedules

Employees &

Contractors

Investors &

analysts

Engagements

2019 - 481

H1 2020 - 251

Themes

  • Operational and financial performance
      • ESG
    • Covid-19

Delivering

enduring value in partnership with all our stakeholders

Engagements

2019 - 896

H1 2020 - 423

Themes

  • Covid-19
  • Compliance and approvals:
    • Permits and licenses
    • PPP
    • Energy, water, EIA

Governments

Communities

Engagements

2019 - 464

H1 2020 - 272

Themes

  • Covid-19
  • Jobs and procurement
  • Social investment

management

Each operation has formal mechanisms to receive and address community, employee and contractor concerns

Community grievances related to jobs and procurement, social and environmental issues:

2019 - 77

H1 2020 - 59

Employee grievances related to harassment, incl. sexual harassment:

2019 - 3

H1 2020 - 2

5.8m social media impressions in H1 2020, with high engagement rates (368,000)

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Total Value

Creation and

Distribution

In 2019, Gold Fields:

  • Created and delivered total economic value to its host communities equivalent to US$782m
  • 95% or 8,806 people of our employees are nationals of the countries in which we operate
  • 10% or US$254m of our total value distributed goes towards government taxes and royalties
  • Capital providers received 6% or US$162m in dividends and interest
  • 96% of total procurement remains with in-country suppliers and contractors

2019 - Value Creation and Distribution: US$2,577m

68%

US$1,744m

Paid to suppliers and contractors

15%

US$395m

Paid to employees in salaries and wages

US$22m

6%

1% Invested in host community development

10%

US$162m

Paid to investors in dividends and interest

US$254m

Paid to governments in taxes and royalty payments

H1 2020 - Value Creation and

Distribution: US$1,292m

US$815m

63% Paid to suppliers and contractors

16% US$203m

Paid to employees in salaries and wages

US$8m

1% Invested in host community development

8% US$110m

12%

Paid to investors in dividends and interest

US$155m

Paid to governments in taxes and royalty payments

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Profile of Gold Fields' Workforce

Gold Fields Group workforce (H1 2020): 16,149, of which 5,597 are employees and 10,552 contractors

Women among employees: 20%; Women in Mining: 53%; Women in Management: 20%

Ghana

South Africa

Australia

Peru

Chile

10% Women

23% Women

20% Women

12% Women

5% Women

44% Women in Mining

66% Women in Mining

52% Women in Mining

43% Women in Mining

9% Women in Mining

7% Women in

18% Women in

22% Women in

16% Women in

23% Women in

Leadership

Leadership

Leadership

Leadership

Leadership

68% Host community

67% Host community

18% Host community

27% Host community

29% Host community

97% Nationals

84% Nationals

98% Nationals

100% Nationals

93% Nationals

73% HDSA¹

¹Excludes foreign nationals

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Focus on value creation in host communities

Procurement

Employment

Social

Investment

Host community procurement creates community jobs and supply opportunities

Host community employment maximises local opportunities

Community investment drives integrated development

  • Support areas where community suppliers can participate
  • Identify community suppliers with ability to supply the mine
  • Provide skills development to close capability gaps
  • Build skills base in community workforce through education, bursaries, etc
  • Make community the first option for hiring staff
  • Encourage contractors/suppliers to employ from the community
  • Balanced across services (health, education), enterprise development and infrastructure
  • Matched to capacity and development needs of communities
  • Shared Value projects benefit both communities and our mines

Gold Fields ESG presentation | October 2020

Source: International Growth Centre, Blavatnik School of Government, ICMM, Gold Fields experience

Gold Fields' Host Community Value Creation 2019

2019 - a third of value creation stayed with host communities

Host Community Value: US$782m

33% of Total Value

22

125

635

SED Investments

Employee wages

Procurement spend

Benefits to host communities in 2019

  • US$782m in value creation
  • 676 host community suppliers
  • 34% or US$635m of our procurement was spent in our host communities
  • 55% or 9,280 people of our workforce are employed from our host communities
  • 10,950 host community jobs in the mine value chain, comprising:
    • 2,525 employees
    • 6,744 contractors
    • 1,177¹ suppliers
    • 504 non-mining job

¹ Excluding Peru and Australia

Community perceptions

South Africa

Community support rose from 33% in 2015, to 52% in 2017 and 62% in 2019 (for 3 communities measured)

Ghana

Strong community support of 73% at Damang and 78% at Tarkwa in 2015

Peru

Community acceptance improved from 5% in 2012 and 7% in 2014 to 32% in 2016 and 48% in 2019

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Headline Shared Value investments

Key Shared Value programmes at our operations benefit stakeholders and the business

Australia

Ghana

Peru

South Africa

Indigenous peoples:

Road network

Water provision

Education

• Reconciliation Action

• 81km of roads rehabilitated

• Drinking water to Cerro

• Bursaries and scholarships

Plan implementation

2014-2020; cost: US$35m,

Corona communities

• School infrastructure

• Native title and heritage

including rebuild of Tarkwa-

• 2,500 households supplied

• Adult Education & Training

management

Damang road (US$27m)

• US$6m to build 2,000

• Wits Mining sponsorship

• Job and procurement

benefiting over 100,000

reservoirs for 5,000 local,

• South Deep Education and

opportunities

community members

small-scale farmers

Community trusts

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Health & Safety

Breaches by

Human Resources

suppliers/

contractors

Resettlement

Water

Gold Fields' salient

Human Rights

Issues

Mine Closure

Public and private

security

Transportation

Human Rights

2019 performance highlights

Workforce

  • Launched our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
  • Developed a Sexual Harassment Policy

Community

  • 39% decline in community grievances
  • Grievance management practices assessed against the UN Guiding Principles
  • Artisanal Small-Scale Mining strategy adopted in Ghana

Suppliers

  • Rollout of Modern Slavery Act in Australia

Security

  • Aligned private sector security providers' contracts to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
  • Carried out a human rights risk assessment at Cerro Corona

Gold Fields ESG presentation | October 2020

Safetyand Health

If we cannot

mine safely, we will not mine!

Gold

Fields' safety strategy

SAFETY

SAFETY

SYSTEMS

LEADERSHIP

ISO 45001

Courageous

Critical

Safety

Leadership

Control

Live the

Management

Standards,

Values

Show we

training &

investigations

care

Change

management

Continuous improvement

Everyone is a

simple & consistent

Courageous Leader

GOLD FIELDS' VALUES

SAFE

BEHAVIOUR

Stop & Fix

Vital

Behaviours

Eliminating fatalities & serious injuries

People making

good choices

Safety

Integrity

Respect

Responsibility

Innovation

Delivery

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Safety performance

Long-term improvements in fatalities and recordable injuries

Number of Injuries and Severity Rate

TRIFR per million man hours

140

138

Recent fatalities:

4,0

126

2019: Maria Ramela, South Deep

120

2020: Abel Magajane, South Deep

3,5

104

3,0

100

99

80

2,5

2,0

60

57

40

1,5

1,0

26

20

17

17

12

0,5

3

8

0

1

1

1

1

0,0

2016

2017

2018

2019

H1 2020

Fatal injury

Serious injury

Total Recordable Injury

TRIFR

Severity rate

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= Days lost to LTIs / hours worked x 1,000,000

Health management at Gold Fields

If we cannot mine safely, we will not mine

Manage both

Silicosis claims

occupational and

settled in SA

primary health at

Tshiamiso Trust

all our operations

established

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

H1 2020

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)

6

9

5

13

6

3

Cardio-respiratory tuberculosis (CRTB)

36

35

21

16

20

7

Silicosis¹

9

7

11

10

5

8

Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD)

1

4

3

3

4

1

Total recordable diseases²

52

55

40

42

35

19

Total Recordable Disease Frequency Rate

1.02

1.01

0.70

0.77

0.74

0.84

Active HAART participants (SA only)

296

332

336

326

204

204

Malaria (Ghana and SA)

532

514

409

237

187

231

¹ All Silicosis cases date from pre-2008;

² NIHL, CRTB, Silicosis, COAD

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Group Covid-19 statistics

Tested

Positive

Negative

Awaiting results

Active cases

In hospital

Recovered

Died

(cumulative up until 16 October 2020)

Americas

Australia

South Africa

West Africa

Group

23 781

11

6 668

4 660

35 120

945

-

391

273

1 609

22 836

11

6 052

4 377

33 276

-

-

225

10

235

14

-

4

9

27

-

-

-

-

-

930

-

386

264

1 580

1

-

1

-

2

Group and

Galiano

35 568

1 699

33 634

235

27

-

1 669

3

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Gold Fields' support for countries and communities

No Covid-19 related retrenchments were implemented at Gold Fields; South Deep mine paid SMME providers and contractors

as well as salaries to mine workers during lockdown

Donations to government and/or industry response funds

  • Australia US$150,000
  • Ghana
    US$444,000
  • South Deep
    R15m to SA's Solidarity Fund and R350,000
  • Peru
    US$1,050,000
  • South Africa
    Gold Fields staff Solidarity Fund contributions R2.6m

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Direct support to NGOs, government and other organisations

  • Australia
    Donated meals, sanitiser
  • Ghana
    Donated PPE, ambulances and other prevention items
  • South Deep
    Directly and with partners donated meals and masks, provided oxygen and equipment to hospitals
  • Peru
    Funded PPE, sanitisation, food, accommodation and medical supplies
  • Chile
    Funded equipment to local hospitals, sanitisation

Awareness raising in host communities

  • Ghana Communication campaigns, Covid-19ambassadors
  • South Africa
    This is Gold community awareness campaign on West Rand and Eastern Cape, Educational awareness booklets in four languages
  • Peru
    Hualgayoc region awareness campaigns

Environment

Environmental management

Responsible stewardship of our natural resources and improved performance

Serious environmental incidents

Improved

6

5

performance:

5

4

Zero serious

3

(Level 3-5)

3

environmental

2

2

2

incidents in 2019 &

1

H1 2020

0

0

0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Integrated land

Responsible

and biodiversity

management of

management:

waste streams:

No net biodiversity

50% of non-

loss for new

mineralised waste

projects / major

recycled in 2019

expansions

Environmental Health & Safety Scorecard for leading indicators with lagging modifiers

Certified

ISO:14001

Environmental

Management

Systems

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Energy

Energy and climate change challenges facing the global mining industry

Availability of

Reliability of

Affordability of

Addressing

energy

energy supply

energy

energy's climate

impacts

Key trends:

  • 2019: Gold Fields' energy spend was 20% of Opex (13% of AISC), US$300m
  • Rising energy demand and costs across all operations due to deeper mines, longer haulages and declining grades
  • Transitioned to low-carbon gas
  • Independent power generation facilities rather than grid dependency
  • Renewable energy gradually being rolled-out at most operations

Group energy consumption

Primary energy sources for electricity

11,696

12,178

11,628

12,498

Australia

5% 1%

TJ

11,240

49%

113

118

111

100

94

2015

2019

12,000

5,302

5,430

4,971

4,929

4,197

9,000

51%

94%

6,000

6,930

6,608

6,765

6,599

6,973

Gas

Diesel

Solar

Ghana

2%

3,000

8%

50%

0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2015

2019

Diesel

Electricity1

Other fuels2

1Electricity includes direct electricity generated and indirect Electricity from the grid, Underlying source of electricity is

gas, coal (South Deep) and hydro (Cerro Corona)50%90% 2Other includes petrol, LPG and acetylene

Gas Diesel Hydro

Gold Fields ESG presentation | October 2020

Our climate change response

Climate-related risks are an immediate as well as a long-term issue

• Target: reduce carbon emissions by a

Group Scope 1 - 3 CO2 -e emissions

CO e emissions and savings

cumulative 0,640 MtCO2e between 2017

Mt

0.970.45 1.96

0.880.49 1.96

0.480.781.85

0.480.81 1.94

Mt

Cumulativeemission savings of 0,641Mt CO e

which accounts for 33% of Scope 1, 2

1.0

0.430.79

0,79

Scope 2

- 2020 against 'business as usual' plans

1.75

1,8

(11% savings against 'business as usual'

2.0

plans)

• Marginal drop in 2019 emissions due to

1,5

0,12

Savings

0,14

0,23

1.5

0,15

increased production at South Deep,

1,2

0,88

0,81

0,70

emission

0,9

  • Shift to low-carbongas in Australia, Ghana
  • South Deep 40MW solar plant planned
  • Roll-outof renewables:

0.5

0.53

0.54

0.59

0.58

0.65

0,6

0,3

0,59

0.0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Scope 1

Scope 2

Scope 3

0

2017

0,58

Scope 1

0,65

0,73

2018

2019

2020 (Projected)

Microgrid at Agnew

Solar plant at Granny Smith

Solar plant at South Deep

2nd TCFD Report published

Artist impression

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Water stewardship

Responsible use of water for the benefits of the business and mitigating the impact on stakeholders in the catchment area

PillarsObjective

Gold Fields

Water Stewardship

Strategy

Being a trusted water stewardship partner

Water efficiency

Security of supply

Catchment management

  • Cost efficiency (3% to 5% fresh water reduction)
  • Recycling and reuse of water (68%)
  • LOM water security assessment included in operational business plans
  • Assess impact of our operations on communities in the catchment area
  • Collaboration with stakeholders in catchment areas

Water withdrawal per tonne processed

Water recycled/reused as percentage of total

Freshwater withdrawal and withdrawal intensity

kL/t

1.07

1.2

0.96

1.0

0.89

0.8

0.64

0.59

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Water category definitions were adjusted in 2018 in accordance with the ICMM Water Reporting Guideline

%

GL

80

66

68

15

70

55

59

57

60

ICMM

12

50

target

9

40

30

6

20

3

10

0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

0

14.3

14.8

14.5

14.2

L/t

500

419

429

437

379 400

300

200

100

2016

2017

2018

2020

0

Freshwater withdrawal

L/tonnes processed

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Overview and management of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs)

Gold Fields' operations (incl. JVs) contain 34 tailings facilities

  • 14: active
  • 4: being re-mined for use as underground back-fill
  • 7: inactive/care and maintenance/ standby
  • 9: closed and rehabilitated

Of the 14 active TSFs the embankments have the following design types:

  • 6: downstream/centerline
  • 5: upstream
  • 3: in-pit

Status as at Q3 2020

  • Independent engineers of record (EoRs) appointed for all TSFs.
  • Ongoing quarterly EoR meetings.
  • Independent Review Board at Cerro Corona.
  • Senior third-party reviewers appointed.
  • Independent external audits (2019/2020) completed
  • Commenced implementation of new independent Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management.
  • Satellite scans on all relevant TSFs.
  • Continued with development of TSF real-time monitoring systems plans and installations.
  • Finalised implementation and rollout of TSF Incident Reporting Standard.
  • Major sponsor of tailings research project in Western Australia.

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Integrated mine closure planning

Responsible mine closure management, optimising liabilities through integrated mine closure

planning and concurrent reclamation

Mine closure plans

Closure cost estimate

Up-to-date mine closure plans

Updated annually

Growing consideration of social aspects

Independent external assurance

Integrated mine closure planning

Concurrent reclamation

Integrate into business and strategic planning processes

Advanced focus with performance targets

Effective engagement with stakeholders

2019 total gross mine

closure liability

US$198m

US$106m

Australia

Agnew

Ghana

Granny Smith

Damang

Gruyere*

US$437m

Tarkwa

St Ives

* 50% attributable to Gold Fields

US$87m

US$46m

Peru/Chile

South Africa

Cerro Corona

South Deep

Salares Norte*

* Project footprint

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