Consolidated Gold Fields. A centenary portrait
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- Author(s) Johnson, Paul
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 256pp; illus
- Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Commissioned history. The author was a writer, journalist, broadcaster, political commentator etc. His book records that 'this is by no means a conventional company history but rather an impression of a vigorous, living organism at one particular moment in its existence. By examining Gold Fields' role and purpose [it] ... illuminates important, even crucial, questions for industrial society today. How, for example, is industry financed? How does such a company as Gold Fields decide where to invest and in what? How are commercial decisions influence by political, economic and social considerations?'. Has chapters: 'Rise and development ...'; 'South Africa - achievements, problems and opportunities'; 'Gold Fields' operations in America'; 'The Newmont investment'; 'Building for the future in Australia'; 'ARC Ltd - a British success story'; 'The central strategy of Consolidated Gold Fields'; 'Moving into the twenty first century'. Includes much about Amey Roadstone Corp; Newmont Mining Corp; Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co; Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd