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NEWS RELEASE
Release Time
IMMEDIATE
Date
10 June 2022
Release Number
20/22
Merger Dividend
Following BHP Group's (BHP) in specie dividend of Woodside Energy Group Limited (Woodside) shares on 1 June 2022, JP Morgan has completed the sale via bookbuild of the Woodside shares of ineligible overseas shareholders and BHP shareholders that elected to participate in the sale facility, and the Woodside shares represented by the rounding treatment of the in specie dividend.
The average price of the Woodside shares sold was A$29.15.
The following table details the currency exchange rates applicable to the remittance of proceeds from the sale of the Woodside shares under the sale facility.
Currency
Exchange rate
Average price of Woodside shares
sold in local currency
United States dollars
0.7184
US$20.94
British pounds
0.5767
GBP£16.81
New Zealand dollars
1.1135
NZ$32.46
South African rand
11.0749
ZAR322.83
Proceeds are expected to be distributed to participating shareholders on 20 June 2022 in the currency and manner in which the relevant shareholder is paid their BHP dividends, but in the case of dematerialised BHP shareholders on the South African branch share register, in South African rand only.
BHP will donate the proceeds from the sale of the rounded shares to charity.
Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa Proprietary Limited
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Group Company Secretary
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BHP Group Limited is the world's leading mining group. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- iron ore (47.3%): 253,000 Kt produced in 2021/22;
- base metals (259%): copper (1,635,7 Kt produced), silver (12,200,000 ounces), zinc (123.2 Kt), uranium oxide (2.4 Kt), etc.;
- coal (23.9%): energy coal (17,937 Kt produced) and metallurgical coal (37,064 Kt).,
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Australia (4.9%), China (65.3%), Japan (7.9%), South Korea (5.7%), India (3.6%), Asia (5.9%), North America (4%), Europe (1.7%), South America (0.7%) and other (0.3%).