Image: Gold FieldsGold Fields is undertaking one of Australian mining’s most ambitious renewable energy projects at St Ives, fundamentally changing how the operation will be powered into the future. The sheer scale of Gold Fields’ new renewable energy project at St Ives in Western Australia is impossible to ignore. St Ives has been producing gold for more than 25 years and has a mine life stretching to 2045. Gold Fields St Ives Renewables Project director Simon Schmid told Australian Mining the runway afforded by the long mine life was fundamental to taking on a project of this magnitude. At a site as vast and enduring as St Ives, the renewable transformation unfolding across its horizon feels fitting in scale.