Gold Fields And Buenaventura Announce Gold Discovery In Southern Peru

Chucapaca's joint venture partners, Gold Fields Limited (51%) GFI and Buenaventura (49%) BVN, are pleased to announce the discovery of a major gold-copper-silver deposit in their Chucapaca project area in southern Peru. Called the Canahuire deposit, it has a Mineral Resource estimate of 5.6 million gold equivalent ounces, with mineralisation potential beyond the extent of current drilling. The Inferred Mineral Resource for Canahuire is approximately 83.7 Mt at 1.9 g/t gold, 0.09% copper and 8.2 g/t silver for a total of 5.6 million gold equivalent ounces.