Rufus Decker

Accounting Branch Chief

Office of Beverages, Apparel and Mining

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington D.C. 20549 – 7010

United States of America

Gold Fields Limited

Reg. 1968/004880/06

150 Helen Road, Sandown,

Sandton, 2196

Postnet Suite 252

Private Bag X30500

Houghton, 2041

South Africa

Tel     +27 11 562-9796

Fax     +27 11 562-9825

www.goldfields.com

August 15, 2017

By EDGAR

Dear Mr. Decker,

Re: Gold Fields Limited

Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2016

Filed on April 5, 2017

File No. 001-31318

Gold Fields Limited (the “Company”) received a comment letter from the staff of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”) dated August 8, 2017 (the “Comment Letter”) related to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.

The Company respectfully requests an extension of an additional ten business days to respond to the Comment Letter in order to permit sufficient time for an internal review of its responses at the appropriate level of the Company. The Company hereby submits such request and confirms that it will respond to the comment of the Staff set forth in the Comment Letter on or before September 5, 2017.

Thank you for your consideration related to the Comment Letter and please do not hesitate to contact me at +27 11 562 9796 or pauls@goldfields.com with any questions.

Sincerely

/s/ Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt

Chief Financial Officer

Gold Fields Limited

cc: Blaise Rhodes, Securities and Exchange Commission

Nasreen Mohammed, Securities and Exchange Commission

Taryn Harmse, Gold Fields Limited

Thomas B. Shropshire, Jr., Linklaters LLP

Directors: C A Carolus (Chair), N J Holland^†** (Chief Executive Officer), P A Schmidt^** (Chief Financial Officer), A Andani ^#, P J Bacchus^†, T P Goodlace, C E Letton^{^}, R P Menell, D M J Ncube, S P Reid^{^}, Y G H Suleman

^{^}Australian, ^†British, ^#Ghanaian, ^** Executive Director

Company Secretary: MML Mokoka