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South32
Traded as	ASX: S32
Industry	Metals; Mining
Predecessor	BHP Billiton
Founded	18 May 2015
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

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South32 is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015.^[1] It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges.^[2]

Products

The company is a producer of bauxite, alumina, aluminium, metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, copper, molybdenum, gold, silver, lead and zinc.^[3]

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.^[4]

Australia

Australia Manganese (60% shareholding); GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory^[5]
Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200 km southeast of Mount Isa, Queensland^[6]
Illawarra Metallurgical Coal near Wollongong, New South Wales operates two underground metallurgical coal mines^[7]
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^[8]

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

Mozal aluminium smelter (47.1%) in Mozambique^[9]

South Africa

Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal^[10]
The Wessels underground and Mamatwan opencut manganese mines at Hotazel in the Northern Cape
Metalloys smelters at Meyerton, Gauteng

Exploratory semi-autonomous drilling at South32 Hermosa project in Patagonia, Arizona.

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^[11]
South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operating thermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold to Seriti in June 2021^[12]

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
^ 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.

[1] Admission to Official List Australian Securities Exchange 18 May 2015

[2] BHP Billiton's South 32 spin off: Will it pay off? ABC News 5 May 2015

[3] "The commodities we bring to society". South32. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[4] South32 debuts as Australia's third-biggest miner with market value of $11.3b Sydney Morning Herald 18 May 2015

[5] GEMCO South32

[6] Cannington South32

[7] Illawarra Metallurgical Coal South32

[8] Worsley Alumina South32

[9] Mozal Aluminium South32

[10] Hillside Aluminium South32

[11] Anglo American, South32 complete sale of Tasmanian smelter Australian Mining 5 January 2021

[12] "Completion of South Africa energy coal divestment" (PDF). South32. 1 June 2021.

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