Presentation to

National Assembly Portfolio Committee

on Trade and Industry

Dr Xolani Mkhwanazi : Chairman- BHP Billiton SA Mr Lucas Msimanga: Asset President - BHP Billiton Aluminium SA 26 April 2013

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Purpose

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• BHP Billiton's Group operations in South Africa

• Our partnership with Government to industrialise South Africa

• Our Negotiated Pricing Agreements with Eskom

• Contribution of our aluminium smelters to downstream beneficiation

• Our role as a responsible corporate citizen

• The future of our electricity contracts with Eskom

A diversified global portfolio

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Iron Ore

One of the world’s premier suppliers of iron ore

Manganese

Operations produce a combination of ores,

alloys and metals

Metallurgical Coal

Produce and market high quality hard coking

coals for the international steel industry

Base Metals

One of the world’s largest producers of silver,

lead and copper

Aluminium and Nickel

A global producer and supplier of primary

aluminium, alumina and nickel

Energy Coal

One of the world's largest producers and

marketers of export thermal coal

Petroleum

A significant oil and gas exploration

and production business

Diamonds and Specialty Products

EKATI Diamond Mine1, Potash development

and exploration

Uranium

Olympic Dam is the world's largest uranium

deposit

Project and Exploration activities are not shown on this map.

1. BHP Billiton has agreed to sell its diamond business, comprising its interests in the EKATI Diamond mine and Diamonds Marketing operations to Harry Winston Mines Ltd.

The transactions are subject to regulatory and other customary conditions. Completion is expected in the first half of calendar year 2013

BHP Billiton Manganese South Africa

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• BHP Billiton Manganese South Africa has

interests in

– Hotazel manganese mines in

Northern Cape

– Mamatwan open-cut

– Wessels underground mine

• Metalloys is one of the largest alloy plants

in the world

• 80% of world’s high grade manganese

reserves are South Africa’s Kalahari Basin

• This is the highest volume and potentially

lowest cost reserve anywhere in the world

BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa

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• BHP Billiton Energy Coal (BECSA)

operations is the fourth-largest in the

country

• Five operations in South Africa

– Khutala Colliery

– Klipspruit Colliery

– Wolvekrans Colliery

– Middelburg Colliery

– BECSA Coal Processing Plant (BCP)

BHP Billiton Southern Africa - Aluminium

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• BHP Billiton is world’s eighth largest

aluminium producer

• Two operations in South Africa

– Hillside Smelter

(opened in 1996)

– Bayside Smelter

(opened in 1971)

• One operation in Mozambique

– Mozal Aluminium Smelter

(opened in 2002)

BHP Billiton Petroleum - South Africa

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• BHP Billiton is holder of Petroleum

exploration rights granted in 2010 to

undertake seismic surveys and

explorations drilling in Block 3B/4B

• BHP Billiton is currently undertaking a

Geophysical survey to assess the

hydrocarbon potential of block 3B/4B

• Cape Town is the port of mobilisation,

demobilisation, and re-supply for

support vessels

Our Contribution to Industrial

Development in South Africa

BHP Billiton Aluminium – Our contribution to

industrial development in South Africa

• BHP Billiton’s multi-billion rand investment

in the aluminium smelters (Hillside and

Mozal) made in direct response to

incentives and encouragement by

governments of South Africa and

Mozambique

• These massive projects were designed to

promote industrial development and absorb

substantial excess generation capacity

following construction of a number of new

power stations by Eskom in the late 1980s

(reserve margin of more than 40%)

• Eskom’s excess capacity would not be

absorbed through normal economic growth

for many years, even decades

• The national utility would continue to

ensure there would be sufficient electricity

to meet the country’s needs

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Background on our aluminium business

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Bayside

Richards Bay, SA

Opened in 1971 and

expanded in 1982

Hillside

Richards Bay, SA

Opened in 1996 and

expanded in 2003

Mozal

Matola, Mozambique

Opened in 2002

How the pricing agreements work

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• Negotiated Price Agreements (NPA) negotiated on a risk sharing basis related to the

international price of aluminium and Rand/Dollar exchange rate. The true price paid only

able to be calculated over the full life of the contracts

• The price paid for power at Hillside and Bayside is linked to the aluminium commodity

price and USD currency rate

• The effect is that in times of high aluminium prices and/or weak rand, BHP pays higher

prices and conversely, in times of low aluminium prices and/or strong rand, lower prices

are paid for power

• Mozal contract renegotiated in 2010 and no longer commodity price or USD linked

Benefits to Eskom and SA

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Cumulative benefit of more than R26bn over Eskom’s 14 years of excess capacity

Our investment in beneficiation - Manganese

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• BHP Billiton supports government’s

beneficiation strategy and downstream

investments goal

• At almost R1billion, the M14 is currently the

largest investment in a manganese furnace

in SA and perhaps the world. The last time

a large furnace was built was in 1978

• The investment in M14 furnace is a sign of

BHP Billiton’s commitment to South Africa

• Improvements were included in the design

of the furnace components to ensure

improved emissions control

• M14 furnace will contribute additional carbon monoxide (CO) gas to onsite power generation

plant, for additional power output, raising the energy self-sufficiency level from the

current base

• The focus on more energy efficient production processes will lead to an improved position of

energy efficiency across the production facility at Metalloys and a reduction in CO2 footprint

for the site

Aluminium SA annual production flow chart

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75% of all Hulamin’s requirement supplied by BHP Billiton Aluminium SA

Products: Imports and exports

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BHP Billiton Aluminium’s contributions

to South Africa

Community spend

A total of R290m has been spent on Community

Development between 2008 – 2012

BHP Billiton Aluminium contribution to

South Africa

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Contribution to taxation

•0.5% or R12bn of GDP

•R550m p/a corporate tax (average for 5 years)

•R1.5bn to tax base, including personal taxes –p/a

•Additional R230m/annum (2012) from PAYE, UIF

and SDL

•R4.4bn positive impact on Current Account -

Balance of Payments (R8.4bn exports less R4bn

imports - alumina, petroleum, coke and pitch)

Economic contribution to Richards Bay

•10% contribution to regional GDP

•7 000 jobs in KwaZulu Natal,

•Livelihood for 33 000 people

•Significant contribution to ports authorities and

municipalities

•R4.2bn spent on local supplies, incl. electricity from

Eskom (2012)

Source: Econometrix December 2012

Job creation

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• Directly employed jobs at Hillside and

Bayside operations as of 2012 is 3000

inclusive of contractors

• Approximately 7000 people have benefited

directly or indirectly from employment

opportunities at companies associated with

the smelters

• Utilising a dependency ratio of 4.0 it is

estimated that the livelihood of approx

28000 persons could be dependent o

the operations

Source: Econometrix reports – Dec 2012

Ongoye Carbon Sink Project

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• BHP Billiton has spent nearly R6m over the

past 5 years

• Addresses environmental issues,

unemployment, youth development and our

commitment to off-setting our carbon

footprint. This project has won two

environmental awards. The project has

grown to other areas and continues to

positively impact on quality of life indicators

• 326 Tree-peneurs registered on the Ngoye

Carbon Sink Project – impacting around 4

people per household in the Mzimela

Community

Source – Wildlands Conservation Trust quarterly report – Nov 2012

Enterprise development

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• The Business Incubator has a training centre and administration complex providing

technical, entrepreneurship and safety skills

• The administration complex provides office accommodation for selected contractors. It is

also a GREEN-compliant building built at R20m

• ASA/Raizcorp candidates won several awards at the ZCCI Industry Business

Excellence Awards

• 169 entrepeneurs have participated in our Enterprise Development Programme since

2009 and they have collectively created 824 additional jobs

(Source:Raizcorp reports – 2013)

BHP Billiton Paediatric Centre of Excellence

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• BHP Billiton Paediatric Centre of Excellence is

situated at King Edward III Hospital in Durban

• A sponsorship of R20m to Carte Blanche’s “Make

a Difference Campaign” was donated by ASA

• The King Edward VIII caters for approximately

3.3 million patients

• With the addition of the Paediatric Centre now

caters for 1259 general outpatients, 412 specialist

outpatients, 236 High Care and Acute admissions,

57 Day Ward, 203 Procedures and 3430 visits to

the Pharmacy on average per month.

(January 2013)

• This project highlights BHP Billiton’s ongoing

commitment to the children of South Africa that

are our future

• We embrace partnerships of this kind that work

towards contributing to the long-term

sustainability of the communities in which we

operate

The Window of Opportunity Project

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• BHP Billiton has pledged R200m over five

years that will benefit four Provinces in SA

and one region in Mozambique. Gauteng,

Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and KZN.

KZN is the first province to benefit from the

roll-out

• This project improves antenatal and

newborn care, infant nutrition, child

development practices, and the quality of

health services planning

• It improves the quality and range of clinical

and community-based services, and

support behaviours among caregivers and

communities that positively affect the health

and development of young children

Creating value for our communities

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Red Cross Disaster Relief,

South Africa

Dreamfields Community Soccer

South Africa

HMM Saturday School, Manganese

Northern Cape

Nelson Mandela Secondary School

Aluminium, Mozambique

Producing aluminium

A process of beneficiating coal, electricity

Carbon process

• In the paste plants, calcined petroleum

coke and recycled anode butts are

heated and mixed with molten pitch

• The hot mixture is compacted into

blocks called green (unbaked) anodes

• The green anodes are transferred to

the carbon bake furnaces where they

are heated in deep, brick-lined pits to

around 1100ºC over a period of

21 days

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Carbon process continued

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• After baking, aluminium rods are

attached to the anodes and sealed

with cast iron

• The rod suspends the anode in the pot

and acts as an electrical conductor

• Rodded anodes are delivered to the

pot rooms for positioning in the pots

• Some 27 days later, the remains of

the anodes (butts) are returned from

the pot rooms and are recycled

• The rods are also re-used

Reduction process

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An electrolytic cell or pot in potroom A Potroom A at Hillside

Aluminium SA’s product: remelt ingot and

rolling slab

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Fume treatment centre

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• The fume treatment centre, FTC, traps dust

and other impurities such as fluoride and

tars, from the anode bake furnace

• Impurities are adsorbed onto alumina,

which is used in the pot rooms

Electricity contracts and impact on

BHP Billiton Aluminium’s business

Plants shut to help South Africa’s power issues

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• Eskom’s near system collapse in January 2008 due to heavy rains, flooded collieries

and low coal stockpiles

• Bayside B & C potlines (250MW) mothballed during 2008 with no compensation

• Helped Eskom’s system reserve and prevented blackouts

Load shedding smelters to protect other customers

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Current status of NPA contracts with Eskom

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Media 24 legal

challenge

Supreme Court

of Appeal ruling

(15 March

2013)

Referral of

contracts to

NERSA by

Eskom

Uncertainty

about the

NERSA process

and its impact