Cash controls Meanwhile, attention is already turning to how exactly Gold Fields intends spending the cash from the deal. Exchange controls restrict it from moving funds offshore, where the company is operating mines in Ghana and Australia. Gold Fields CEO Ian Cockerill says that the cash will be put back into its SA assets. Analysts say that Gold Fields should have already provided for projects from internal sources so that the inflow from Mvelaphanda is surplus. This has made for interesting speculation that Gold Fields is considering concluding other transactions in SA's gold industry.