Xstrata at a Glance
Xstrata is a major global diversified mining group, listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Xstrata maintains a meaningful position in seven major international commodity markets: copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, nickel, vanadium and zinc, with recycling facilities, additional exposures to gold, lead, cobalt and silver and a suite of global minerals and metals processing technologies. Xstrata’s operations and projects span 18 countries and employ over 43,000 people, including contractors.
Xstrata’s activities are organised into five global commodity businesses and a technology business, each of which operates with a high level of autonomy.
Xstrata Alloys is the world’s largest producer of ferrochrome and a leading producer of primary vanadium. Xstrata Alloys also owns carbon and anthracite operations which supply key raw materials to its ferrochrome smelters and an interest in a joint venture platinum group metals mine and concentrator.
Xstrata Coal is the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal and a significant producer of premium quality hard coking coal and semi-soft coal. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Xstrata Coal has interests in over 30 operating coal mines in Australia, South Africa and Colombia and an exploration project in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Xstrata Copper is the fourth largest global copper producer, with mining and processing facilities located in Australia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Canada. It also manages a recycling business (Noranda Recycling) with plants in the USA and Asia. Xstrata Copper’s world-leading portfolio of growth projects includes Las Bambas in Peru, Tampakan in the Philippines, El Morro in Chile, El Pachón in Argentina and Frieda River in Papua New Guinea.
Xstrata Nickel, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is the fourth largest global nickel producer and one of the world’s largest producers of cobalt. Xstrata Nickel’s operations include five mines and processing facilities in Canada, a ferronickel mine and processing facility in the Dominican Republic and a refinery in Norway. Xstrata Nickel’s promising portfolio of growth projects includes Nickel Rim South in Canada, Kabanga in Tanzania, and Koniambo in New Caledonia.
Xstrata Zinc is one of the world’s largest miners and producers of zinc. Xstrata Zinc’s operations span Spain, Germany, Australia, the UK and Canada, with an interest in the Antamina copper-zinc mine in Peru. Xstrata Zinc’s growth projects include interests in the Lady Loretta deposit in Queensland, Australia, and the Perseverance zinc deposit in Quebec, Canada.
Xstrata Technology develops, markets and supports technologies for the global mining, mineral processing and metals extraction industries. These include the ISA Process™, ISASMELT™, IsaMill™, Jameson Cell and Albion Process technologies, which are successfully marketed globally to major mining companies and used at a number of Xstrata’s own operations to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.