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South32

South32 Limited 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] In February 2024, South32 announced an agreement to sell the Illawarra mines to a consortium of Golden Energy and Resources and M Resources.[8]
  • 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[9]

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 in the Atacama Desert near Calama (45%)

Colombia

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

Mozambique

  • Mozal aluminium smelter in Maputo (47.1%)[10]

South Africa

  • Hillside aluminium smelter at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal[11]
  • The Wessels underground and Mamatwan opencut manganese mines at Hotazel in the Northern Cape
  • Metalloys smelters at Meyerton, Gauteng (which was then sold in June 2025)

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 George Town, Tasmania, was sold to GFG Alliance in January 2021[12]
  • South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operating thermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold to Seriti in June 2021[13]

References

  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. Mick McLaren. South32 Illawarra Metallurgical Coal mines to be sold off in deal that needs BlueScope approval ABC News (Australia), 29 February 2024^
  9. Worsley Alumina South32^
  10. Mozal Aluminium South32^
  11. Hillside Aluminium South32^
  12. Anglo American, South32 complete sale of Tasmanian smelter Australian Mining 5 January 2021^
  13. Completion of South Africa energy coal divestment South32, 1 June 2021^