South32 Limited is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015.Admission to Official List Australian Securities Exchange 18 May 2015 It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges.BHP Billiton's South 32 spin off: Will it pay off? ABC News 5 May 2015
Products The company is a producer of bauxite, alumina, aluminium, metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, copper, molybdenum, gold, silver, lead and zinc.
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.South32 debuts as Australia's third-biggest miner with market value of $11.3b Sydney Morning Herald 18 May 2015
Australia Australia Manganese (60% shareholding); GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt in the Northern TerritoryGEMCO South32 Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200 km southeast of Mount Isa, QueenslandCannington South32
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 aluminiumWorsley Alumina South32
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%). In care and maintenance as of 16 March, 2026.Mozal Aluminium South32
South Africa Hillside aluminium smelter at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-NatalHillside Aluminium South32 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 2021Anglo American, South32 complete sale of Tasmanian smelter Australian Mining 5 January 2021 South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operating thermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold to Seriti in June 2021
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