Gold Fields, the world's fourth-biggest gold producer, said it will be the first African and gold mining company to list on the Dubai exchange.
"There is tremendous liquidity there and the ability to attract some of those investment dollars into Gold Fields stock will be very, very beneficial to the company," Chief Executive Ian Cockerill told Reuters.
Although Gold Fields already has some investors in the Middle East, a listing in the region is expected to attact those who feel more comfortable trading on the home bourse, he added.
"We've done some pre-marketing and we find a lot of interest in gold. Clearly Dubai is a city of gold," Cockerill said.
Dubai is a trading hub, acting as the entry point for physical gold moving to the Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent.
Strong domestic demand has pushed Dubai's per capita gold consumption to the highest level in the world, a statement by Gold Fields said.
Gold Fields is also looking into adding further secondary listings to the existing ones in London, New York, Euronext and the Swiss Stock Exchange SWX.
"There may be even more (listings) in the future in the Far East... the world's investment dollars are increasingly moving towards the east and companies need to follow the money," Cockerill said.
He said it was too early to say which bourse might be next, but named Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney as possibilities.
An Asian listing could allow trading in Gold Fields shares virtually 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, he added.
Gold Fields shares, which have gained 14 percent this year, slipped 0.46 percent to 127.42 rand by 0745 GMT compared with a 1.08 percent fall in the gold mining index.
