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South32

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Mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia

South32 Limited is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges.3 Its shares trade on Australian Securities Exchange under the symbol S32.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2015Founded1

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  • TickerS32 on Australian Securities Exchange1
  • Industrymining industry1
  • HeadquartersPerth1
  • Websitewww.south32.net
  • Legal formpublic company limited by shares1
  • Listed onLondon Stock Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange (S32)1
  • LEI213800LAZNPXSBKVHR174
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusIssued and current4
  • Registered addressLEVEL 2, 100 ST GEORGES TERRACE, 6000 Perth, Australia4
  • Registered withThe Australian Securities and Investment Commission, 093 732 5974

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South32 Limited is a mining and metals company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It was spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges.3

Corporate structure

South32 sits at the top of its group. 10 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • South32 Perth, Australia
    • Worsley Alumina Subsidiary · SWIS Region
    • Trilogy Metals Inc. Stake · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • SOUTH32 GROUP OPERATIONS PTY LTD Subsidiary · Perth, Australia
      • SOUTH32 ROYALTY INVESTMENTS PTY LTD Subsidiary · Perth, Australia
    • SOUTH32 INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT HOLDINGS PROPRIETARY LIMITED Subsidiary · Perth, Australia
    • SOUTH32 MARKETING PTE. LTD. Subsidiary · Singapore, Singapore
    • SOUTH32 MINERALS SA Subsidiary · Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
    • SOUTH32 SA FINANCE (PTY) LTD Subsidiary · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • SOUTH32 TREASURY LIMITED Subsidiary · Perth, Australia

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); stakes of 5% or more it reported on Schedules 13D and 13G (1 companies). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

  • manganese(II) oxide

Listed on Wikidata.1

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.

Australia

Australia Manganese (60% shareholding); GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory

Cannington Mine silver, lead and zinc mine, 200 km southeast of Mount Isa, Queensland

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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

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.

South Africa

Hillside aluminium smelter at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal

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

South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), operating thermal coal mining assets in South Africa, was sold to Seriti in June 2021

From Wikipedia’s article on South32, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. May 18, 2015Went public Listed on Australian Securities Exchange1
  2. 2015Founded Founded1

Stakes it holds

South32 has told the SEC it owns more than 5% of 1 company, latest first (Schedules 13D and 13G).

SEC filer profile

How South32 is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARSouth32 Ltd2
  • CIK0001635752
  • Incorporated inAustralia2
  • Fiscal year endsJune 302
  • Business addressLevel 2 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia2
  • Phone618932490002
  • On EDGAR sinceMar 16, 20152
  • Filings9 in all: 4 (2), SC 13G/A (2), 3 (1), EFFECT (1), F-6 (1), SC 13G (1), SCHEDULE 13G/A (1)2

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