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(Loss)/Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
(Loss)/Earnings Per Share |
|  | Fiscal Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
BASIC (LOSS)/EARNINGS PER SHARE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net (loss)/income attributable to Gold Fields shareholders |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
- Continuing operations |  |  | (27.2 | ) |  |  | (268.4 | ) |  |  | 292.1 |
- Discontinued operations * |  |  | — |  |  |  | 20.5 |  |  |  | 362.2 |
|  |  | (27.2 | ) |  |  | (247.9 | ) |  |  | 654.3 |
Weighted average number of shares - continuing operations |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Shares outstanding - beginning of year |  |  | 767,160,263 |  |  |  | 729,536,813 |  |  |  | 723,735,186 |
Weighted average number of shares issued |  |  | 1,981,608 |  |  |  | 13,069,913 |  |  |  | 3,724,271 |
Weighted average number of shares issued at the end of the year |  |  | 769,141,871 |  |  |  | 742,606,726 |  |  |  | 727,459,457 |
Basic (loss)/earnings per share |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
- Continuing operations |  |  | (0.04 | ) |  |  | (0.36 | ) |  |  | 0.40 |
- Discontinued operations * |  |  | — |  |  |  | 0.03 |  |  |  | 0.50 |
| * | Basic earnings per share from discontinued operations
Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the profit attributable to ordinary shareholders from discontinued operations of $nil (fiscal 2013: $20.5 million and fiscal 2012: $362.2 million) by the weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue in fiscal 2014 of 769,141,871 (fiscal 2013: 742,606,726 and fiscal 2012: 727,459,457).
|  | Fiscal Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
DILUTED (LOSS)/EARNINGS PER SHARE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net (loss)/income attributable to Gold Fields shareholders |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
- Continuing operations |  |  | (27.2 | ) |  |  | (268.4 | ) |  |  | 292.1 |
- Discontinued operations * |  |  | — |  |  |  | 20.5 |  |  |  | 362.2 |
|  |  | (27.2 | ) |  |  | (247.9 | ) |  |  | 654.3 |
Weighted average number of shares - continuing operations |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Weighted average number of shares issued at the end of the year |  |  | 769,141,871 |  |  |  | 742,606,726 |  |  |  | 727,459,457 |
Effect of dilutive securities 1 |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 3,264,493 |
|  |  | 769,141,871 |  |  |  | 742,606,726 |  |  |  | 730,723,950 |
Diluted (loss)/earnings per share |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
- Continuing operations |  |  | (0.04 | ) |  |  | (0.36 | ) |  |  | 0.40 |
- Discontinued operations * |  |  | — |  |  |  | 0.03 |  |  |  | 0.50 |
| * | Diluted earnings per share from discontinued operations

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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