South32

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 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]

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• TEMCO, a manganese smelter located at Georgetown, 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]