Miner will include Sarine’s mapping and planning technologies into its sales platform, which applies algorithms to match rough diamond production with polished manufacturing demand on a stone by stone basis.
Gold Fields said this week it planned to cut 1,100 permanent jobs at the company's last South African asset, South Deep, sending its shares plummeting.
Holland said the company has made every effort to avoid the drastic move, but said the choice was now between that and serious risk to the future of South Deep and its many stakeholders.