RE:Sign of the times? "Surging inflation is eating into gold miner Gold Fields' contingency cost buffer for its Salares Norte project in Chile, CEO Chris Griffith said on Monday, adding that the South Africa-listed company is seeing at least 10% inflation in the regions where it operates.
"That kind of inflation is what is rapidly eating up our contingency," Griffith said in an interview on the sidelines of the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town. Cost inflation is a headache for all mining companies that are heavy consumers of fuel and electricity.
Prices for some products Gold Fields consumes, such as steel bolts, reagents, and explosives, have risen by as much as 30%, Griffith said.
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