It’s 10 years since BHP demerged production in coal, aluminium and silver into a company that became South32 — so named owing to its exposure to southern hemisphere assets. The company had other names too, according to CEO Graham Kerr.

“When we were first created we had those names, like ‘Shitco’ and ‘Crapco’,” he tells the FM...

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