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Traded as ASXS32
Industry Metals
Mining
Predecessor BHP Billiton
Founded 18 May 2015
Headquarters
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)
$US 1.5 billion (2021)

South32 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

Brazil

  • Mineração Rio do Norte bauxite mine near Porto Trombetas (~18% increasing to 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%)

South Africa

  • Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Mozal aluminium smelter (47.1%) in Mozambique
  • 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 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

See also

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