South32
| Public | |
| Traded as |
ASX: S32 LSE: S32 JSE: S32 |
| Industry | |
| Predecessor | BHP Billiton |
| Founded | May 25, 2015 |
| Headquarters | Perth, Australia |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Products | |
| Revenue | US$6,948 million (2015) |
| US$1,001 million (2015) | |
| US$575 million (2015) | |
| Total assets | US$11,035 million (2015) |
| Total equity | US$12,247 million (2015) |
Number of employees | 15,545 (2015) |
| Divisions |
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| Website |
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South32 is a base metal and coal mining company based in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 25 May 2015.[1] The company is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings planned for the Johannesburg bourse and a standard listing on the London market.[1]
Products
The company is a major producer of commodity metals and coal.[2] They are aluminium, manganese, silver, zinc, lead, nickel, coking coal and thermal coal. It operates mines in South Africa and Australia.[2]
Assets
South32 owns mines and processing facilities in Australia, Colombia, South Africa and Mozambique.
- Worsley Alumina at Worsley, Western Australia (86% owned) is a bauxite mine and alumina refinery. The alumina is exported to South32's smelters in South Africa.[3]
- Illawarra Metallurgical Coal near Wollongong, New South Wales operates three underground metallurgical coal mines;[3]
- Australia Manganese (60 per cent interest); GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory and TEMCO alloy plant in Bell Bay, Tasmania;[3]
- Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200km southeast of Mount Isa, Queensland;[3] and
- Cerro Matoso nickel mine and smelter in Northern Colombia (99.94%)[3]
- Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal;[4]
- Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique[4]
- Energy Coal (50%) includes 4 coal mines and associated processing near the towns of eMalahleni and Middelburg in Mpumalanga in South Africa.[4]
- The Wessels underground and Mamatwan opencut manganese mines at Hotazel in the Northern Cape.[4]
- Metalloys smelters at Meyerton, Gauteng in South Africa.[4]
References
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