Australia's South32 posts over two-fold jump in quarterly manganese output

South32

21/04/2026 23:17

April 22 (Reuters) - South32 S32.AX on Wednesday reported a more than two-fold rise in third-quarter manganese output, as its Australian operations resumed production compared with a year-earlier quarter when output was nil.

The world's biggest manganese producer logged 1.09 million wet metric tons of the steel additive for the March quarter from its Australian and South African operations, up from 476,000 wmt a year earlier.

This result missed the Visible Alpha consensus estimate of 1.25 million wmt.

 (Reporting by Kumar Tanishk in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

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