South32 Limited is a globally diversified mining and metals company that produces bauxite, alumina, aluminium, metallurgical coal, manganese ore, nickel, copper, molybdenum, silver, lead and zinc; its key operations include the Worsley Alumina refinery and GEMCO manganese mine in Australia, Hillside Aluminium smelter and South Africa Manganese mines in South Africa, Mozal Aluminium smelter in Mozambique, Sierra Gorda copper mine in Chile, Cannington silver-lead-zinc mine in Australia, and development projects such as Hermosa in the United States. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, the company was spun out from BHP Billiton in 2015 and maintains listings on the Australian Securities Exchange along with secondary listings in Johannesburg and London; it operates across Australia, South Africa, Mozambique, Colombia, the United States, Brazil and Chile, targeting industrial, manufacturing and energy transition markets with a workforce of approximately 8,900 employees. In recent developments, South32 completed the sale of its Metalloys manganese smelter in South Africa in 2025 and Illawarra Metallurgical Coal in Australia in 2024, divested the TEMCO manganese alloy smelter and South Africa Energy Coal in 2021, entered a binding agreement in July 2025 to sell the Cerro Matoso nickel operation in Colombia to CoreX Holding for up to $100 million with completion expected in late H1 FY26, achieved final investment approval for the Taylor zinc-lead-silver deposit at Hermosa in FY24, secured approvals to extend Worsley Alumina’s mine life, converted two coal-fired boilers at Worsley Alumina to natural gas in FY24 to reduce emissions, successfully completed the GEMCO operational recovery plan following Tropical Cyclone Megan in 2024 with export sales resuming in May 2025, and reported FY25 Underlying EBITDA of $1.9 billion with 20% copper production growth and 6% aluminium growth.