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| Company type | Public |
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| Traded as | ASX: S32 |
| Industry | Metals Mining |
| Predecessor | BHP Billiton |
| Founded | May 18, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-18) |
| Headquarters | Perth, Western Australia |
| Key people | Karen Wood (chair) Graham Kerr (CEO) |
| Products | Alumina Aluminium Copper Manganese Metallurgical coal Lead Nickel Silver Zinc |
| Revenue | $US 6.3 billion (2021) |
| Net income | $US 1.5 billion (2021) |
| Website | www.south32.net |
South32 Limited is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges.
Products
The company is a producer of bauxite, alumina, aluminium, metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, copper, molybdenum, gold, silver, lead and zinc.
Operations
South32 has operations in Australia, South Africa, Mozambique, Colombia and the United States. In addition it has investments in an integrated aluminium business in Brazil and a copper and molybdenum mine in Chile.
Australia
- Australia Manganese (60% shareholding); GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory
- Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200 km southeast of Mount Isa, Queensland
- Illawarra Metallurgical Coal near Wollongong, New South Wales operates two underground metallurgical coal mines In February 2024, South32 announced an agreement to sell the Illawarra mines to a consortium of Golden Energy and Resources and M Resources.
- Worsley Alumina at Worsley, Western Australia (86% owned) is a bauxite mine and alumina refinery, a portion of the alumina is exported to South32's African smelters for conversion into aluminium
Brazil
- Mineração Rio do Norte bauxite mine near Porto Trombetas (33%)
- Alumar alumina refinery (36%) and the adjoining aluminium smelter (40%) near São Luís
Chile
- Sierra Gorda copper and molybdenum mine located near Calama (45%)
Colombia
- Cerro Matoso nickel mine and smelter in northern Colombia (99.94%)
Mozambique
South Africa
- Hillside aluminium smelter at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal
- The Wessels underground and Mamatwan opencut manganese mines at Hotazel in the Northern Cape
- Metalloys smelters at Meyerton, Gauteng
United States
- Hermosa, a mineral resource development option located in the Patagonia mountains of southern Arizona
- Ambler Metals (50%), a mineral resource development option located in Alaska
Former operations
- TEMCO, a manganese smelter located at Georgetown, Tasmania, was sold to GFG Alliance in January 2021
- South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operating thermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold to Seriti in June 2021
References
- Admission to Official List Australian Securities Exchange 18 May 2015
- BHP Billiton's South 32 spin off: Will it pay off? ABC News 5 May 2015
- "The commodities we bring to society". South32. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- South32 debuts as Australia's third-biggest miner with market value of $11.3b Sydney Morning Herald 18 May 2015
- GEMCO South32
- Cannington South32
- Illawarra Metallurgical Coal South32
- McLaren, Mick (29 February 2024). "South32 Illawarra Metallurgical Coal mines to be sold off in deal that needs BlueScope approval". ABC News (Australia).
- Worsley Alumina South32
- Mozal Aluminium South32
- Hillside Aluminium South32
- Anglo American, South32 complete sale of Tasmanian smelter Australian Mining 5 January 2021
- "Completion of South Africa energy coal divestment" (PDF). South32. 1 June 2021.
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- Aluminium companies of Australia
- BHP
- Coal companies of Australia
- Coal companies of South Africa
- Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
- Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
- Companies in the S&P ASX 50
- Corporate spin-offs
- Metal companies of Australia
- Mining companies of Australia
- Mining companies of South Africa
- Nickel mining companies
- Non-renewable resource companies established in 2015
- Silver mining companies
- Zinc mining companies
- 2015 establishments in Australia