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Post Retirement Benefit Plans - Actuarial Assumptions Used for the Measurement of Benefit Obligations and Pension Costs (Detail)	Oct. 31, 2013	Oct. 31, 2012	Oct. 31, 2011
Pension Plans, Defined Benefit [Member]
Pension Plans, Postretirement and Other Employee Benefits [Line Items]
Actuarial assumptions used to measure the year-end benefit obligations and the pension costs	4.30%	3.92%	4.94%
Pension Plans, Defined Benefit [Member] | Postretirement Health Care and Life Insurance Benefits [Member]
Pension Plans, Postretirement and Other Employee Benefits [Line Items]
Actuarial assumptions used to measure the year-end benefit obligations and the pension costs	4.67%	4.77%
USA [Member]
Pension Plans, Postretirement and Other Employee Benefits [Line Items]
Actuarial assumptions used to measure the year-end benefit obligations and the pension costs	4.75%	4.00%	4.90%
USA [Member] | Postretirement Health Care and Life Insurance Benefits [Member]
Pension Plans, Postretirement and Other Employee Benefits [Line Items]
Actuarial assumptions used to measure the year-end benefit obligations and the pension costs	3.95%	4.00%
South Africa [Member] | Postretirement Health Care and Life Insurance Benefits [Member]
Pension Plans, Postretirement and Other Employee Benefits [Line Items]
Actuarial assumptions used to measure the year-end benefit obligations and the pension costs	8.10%	7.75%

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