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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. [ 1 ] It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with secondary listings on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges .
Samancor Manganese (60% South32 and 40% Anglo American plc) The Wessels mine is a mine located in the west of South Africa in Northern Cape . Wessels represents one of the largest manganese reserve in South Africa having estimated reserves of 198.8 million tonnes of manganese ore grading 55% manganese metal.
On 19 August 2014, BHP Billiton announced it would create an independent global metals and mining company based on a selection of its aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel, and silver assets. [70] The newly formed entity, named South32, was subsequently demerged with listings on the Australian Securities Exchange the JSE and the London Stock ...
Bell Bay has an aluminium smelter operated by Rio Tinto (previously by Comalco), [5] and the Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company manganese alloy smelter operated by South32 (previously by BHP). [6] The Bell Bay Power Station was decommissioned in 2009, replaced by the Tamar Valley Power Station built next door.
The refinery, also owned by South32, uses a four-stage Bayer Process to transform the red bauxite rock into white alumina powder. It is powered by coal, producing 3.7 million tonnes (8.2 billion pounds) of carbon per year averaged for 2017–2021, making it the fourth-biggest carbon polluter in Western Australia.
South32 The Cannington Silver and Lead Mine is an Australian underground mine located in north-west Queensland , in the Shire of McKinlay , about 200 kilometres (124 mi) southeast of Mount Isa . The deposit was discovered by BHP in 1990. [ 1 ]
Manganvesuvianite has been found in association with calcite, manganese-poor grossular, hydrogrossular-henritermierite, mozartite, serandite-pectolite, strontiopiemontite-tweddillite, and xonotlite. [8] Manganvesuvianite is a member of the vesuvianite group and is the manganese analogue of vesuvianite. [3]
In December 2023, it was revealed that Fyles holds 754 undeclared shares in South32, a company that owns a manganese mine on Groote Eylandt. Fyles faced further conflict of interest allegations and calls to resign, due to her decision earlier in 2023 to not investigate health impacts from the Groote Eylandt mine, with Leader of the Opposition ...