South32
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| Traded as | ASX: S32 LSE: S32 JSE: S32 |
| Industry | |
| Predecessor | BHP Billiton |
| Founded | May 25, 2015 |
| Headquarters | Perth, Australia |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| 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) |
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Number of employees
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15,545 (2015) |
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| Website | www |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "South32 Demerger Implemented". bhpbilliton.com. Retrieved 23 October 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "South32 debuts as Australia's third-biggest miner with market value of $11.3b". Retrieved 2015-06-16.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Australia Region". South32. Retrieved 24 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Africa". South32. Retrieved 24 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Categories:
- Mining companies
- Mining companies of Australia
- Mining companies of South Africa
- Metal companies
- Aluminium companies
- Coal companies of Australia
- Coal companies of South Africa
- Nickel mining companies
- Silver mining companies
- Zinc mining companies
- Australian companies established in 2015
- Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
- Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
- Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
- Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
