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Gold Fields tips big rise in earnings

Production in line but costs tracking slightly higher

Tom Hoskyns
 Gold Fields' Agnew mine

Gold Fields' Agnew mine

Attributable gold production amounted to 563,000oz, up from 541,000oz in Q1, according to a trading update released on Friday.

Gold Fields operates the Agnew/Lawlers, St Ives, Granny Smith and Gruyere mine in Western Australia, South Deep in South Africa, Tarkwa in Ghana and Cerro Corona in Chile.

The company is tracking slightly below its full-year guidance range of 2.3-2.35Moz, but Gold Fields has said production would be back-weighted in the second half of the year.

Costs are tracking slightly higher than expected, with all-in sustaining costs of US$1093/oz in the first half, above the full-year cost guidance of $1020-1060/oz.

Gold Fields said headline earnings per share for the first six months of the year were expected to be 43-47c per share, more than double the prior year period but slightly below estimates by analysts at investment bank BMO Capital Markets.

The company is due to publish its half-year financial results on August 19.

"While we see costs potentially benefiting from higher production volumes in H2/21, we expect to get a better idea of cost drivers upon release of the company's detailed financial results, especially given the inflationary cost pressures starting to emerge in the mining sector," said analysts at BMO.

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