South32 Limited

Company type	Public
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 amining andmetals company headquartered inPerth, Western Australia. It wasspun out ofBHP Billiton on 18 May 2015.^[1] It is listed on theAustralian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on theJohannesburg andLondon Stock Exchanges.^[2]

The company is a producer ofbauxite,alumina,aluminium,metallurgical coal,manganese,nickel,copper,molybdenum,gold,silver,lead andzinc.^[3]

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 Manganese (60% shareholding);GEMCO mine onGroote Eylandt in theNorthern Territory^[5]
• Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200 km southeast ofMount Isa,Queensland^[6]
• Illawarra Metallurgical Coal nearWollongong,New South Wales operates two undergroundmetallurgical coal mines^[7] In February 2024, South32 announced an agreement to sell the Illawarra mines to a consortium ofGolden Energy and Resources andM Resources.^[8]
• Worsley Alumina atWorsley, Western Australia (86% owned) is abauxite mine andalumina refinery, a portion of the alumina is exported to South32's African smelters for conversion into aluminium^[9]

• Mineração Rio do Norte bauxite mine nearPorto Trombetas (33%)
• Alumar alumina refinery (36%) and the adjoining aluminium smelter (40%) nearSão Luís

• Sierra Gorda copper and molybdenum mine located nearCalama (45%)

• Cerro Matoso nickel mine and smelter in northern Colombia (99.94%)

• Mozal aluminium smelter inMaputo (47.1%)^[10]

• Hillside aluminium smelter atRichards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal^[11]
• TheWessels underground andMamatwan opencut manganese mines atHotazel in theNorthern Cape
• Metalloys smelters atMeyerton, Gauteng

• Hermosa, a mineral resource development option located in thePatagonia mountains of southernArizona
• Ambler Metals (50%), a mineral resource development option located inAlaska

• TEMCO, a manganese smelter located atGeorge Town, Tasmania, was sold toGFG Alliance in January 2021^[12]
• South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operatingthermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold toSeriti in June 2021^[13]

• 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

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