• Assore Limited
  •  Overview
  • Last Modified:
  • September 4, 2025
  • Company type:
  • Private
  • Industry:
  • Mining and Metals
  • Verified:
  • No
  • No of Employees:
  • 1 - 1 000
  • Stock Code:
  • Download
  • Signed Health Status Declaration Form
  • Turnover $50m + ?:
  • No
  • Headquarters:
  • South Africa
  • Public Interest Score:
  • 750+

 

  • Assore Limited
  • General Information

Description

Assore is an international mining holding company engaged principally in ventures involving the mining, processing and marketing of a range of ores, minerals and metals in several countries.

The group’s principal investment is a 50% interest in Assmang Proprietary Limited (Assmang), a South African company, which it jointly controls with JSE listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). Assmang mines iron and manganese ores and produces manganese alloys. Assore provides technical input and operational support to the various mining operations.

Assore’s operations span across continents, with mining operations and our headquarters in South Africa, a smelting plant in Malaysia and marketing and sales operations in North America, Europe, India and Asia.

Desmond Sacco:
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Charles Walters:
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Patrick Sacco:
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Eric Mackeown:
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Sydney Mhlarhi:
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Bastiaan van Aswegen:
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Sandra Du Toit:
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Kieran Daly:
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Mandla Tobela:
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  • Company Information
  • Company System Number:
  • 14371
  • Founded Year: 
  • 1950
  • Registration Number: 
  • 1950/037394/06
  • Country: 
  • South Africa
  • Stock Exchanges: 
    • Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  • Financial year end: 
  • June
  • No. of Countries operations: 
  • 15
  • Company Status: 
  • Deregistered
  • Industry Sub Category: 
  • Date listed on Stock Exchange: 

 

  • Contact Information
  • Business operation: 
  • The group, through its various joint-venture entities and subsidiary companies, is involved in the mining of iron, manganese and chrome ores together with other industrial minerals and the production of manganese alloys. The group is also responsible for marketing all products produced by the Assore and Assmang groups, the bulk of which are exported and the remainder either used in the group’s beneficiation processes or sold locally
  • Primary office: 
  • Assore House 15 Fricker Road Illovo Boulevard Johannesburg South Africa 2196

 

  • Additional Information
  • Listed?: 
  • No
Date Delisted: 01/06/2020
  • Company secretary: 
  • African Mining and Trust Company Limited
  • Reporting currency: 
  • ZAR
  • ISIN number (12 digit): 
  • Authorised shares:
  • Issued shares:
  • No of shareholders:
  • 1001 and more shareholders
  • No of shareholders holding 20%:
  • 0 shareholders
  • Number of shares traded
  • Per Year:
  • Per Quarter:
  • Per Month:

 

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Company Directors

Name
Nationality
Age
Role
Qualification
Name

Desmond

Non Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleNED
QualificationBSc (Hons) (Geology)
Date Appointed: 06/08/1974
Duration:
51 years and 3 months
Independance: N
Profile
Name

Charles

Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleED
QualificationBSc (Mech) Eng, BCom, PMD
Date Appointed: 01/07/2017
Duration:
8 years and 4 months
Independance: Y
Profile
Name

Patrick 

Non Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleNED
QualificationBA (Indus Psych), MA (Marketing)
Date Appointed: 01/07/2007
Duration:
18 years and 4 months
Independance: N
Profile
Name

Eric

Non Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleNED
QualificationCA(SA)
Date Appointed: 01/01/2021
Duration:
4 years and 10 months
Independance: Y
Profile
Name

Sydney

Non Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
51
RoleNED
QualificationBCom, BAcc, CA(SA)
Date Appointed: 15/10/2012
Duration:
13 years and 1 month
Independance: N
Profile
Name

Bastiaan

Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleDeputy Chief Executive
QualificationBEng,BCom,MEng
Date Appointed: 01/07/2023
Duration:
2 years and 4 months
Independance: Y
Profile
Name

Sandra

Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleCFO
QualificationBCom,LLB,LLM
Date Appointed: 01/03/2024
Duration:
1 year and 8 months
Independance: Y
Profile
Name

Kieran

Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleED
QualificationBsc(Mining,MBA
Date Appointed: 01/07/2023
Duration:
2 years and 4 months
Independance: Y
Profile
Name

Mandla

Executive
NationalitySouth Africa
RoleED
QualificationB.Proc,LLB,LLM,MBA
Date Appointed: 01/01/2015
Duration:
10 years and 10 months
Independance: N
Profile

 

Directors Tenure

Name
Duration
Name

Desmond Sacco

Duration51 years and 3 months
Profile
Name

Charles Walters

Duration8 years and 4 months
Profile
Name

Patrick  Sacco

Duration18 years and 4 months
Profile
Name

Eric Mackeown

Duration4 years and 10 months
Profile
Name

Sydney Mhlarhi

Duration13 years and 1 month
Profile
Name

Bastiaan van Aswegen

Duration2 years and 4 months
Profile
Name

Sandra Du Toit

Duration1 year and 8 months
Profile
Name

Kieran Daly

Duration2 years and 4 months
Profile
Name

Mandla Tobela

Duration10 years and 10 months
Profile

 

Director Experience

Name
Experience
Name

Desmond

Experience Mining and Metals
Profile
Name

Charles

Experience Mining and Metals, Investment
Profile
Name

Patrick 

Experience Mining and Metals
Profile
Name

Eric

Experience Financial Services
Profile
Name

Sydney

Experience Financial Services, Investment
Profile
Name

Bastiaan

Experience Mining and Metals
Profile
Name

Sandra

Experience Banking, Financial Services, Legal
Profile
Name

Kieran

Experience Investment, Banking, Mining and Metals
Profile
Name

Mandla

Experience Legal, Mining and Metals
Profile

 

Company Auditors

Name
Date Appointed
Years
Name

Ernst & Young

Date Appointed01/01/1989
Year36 years and 10 months
Profile

 

 

Company Committees

Name

Desmond Sacco

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD, RE
Profile
Name

Charles Walters

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Patrick  Sacco

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Eric Mackeown

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Sydney Mhlarhi

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD, AU, RC, RE
Profile
Name

Bastiaan van Aswegen

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Sandra Du Toit

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Kieran Daly

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile
Name

Mandla Tobela

Mainboard, Audit, Remuneration BD
Profile

 

Committee
Abbreviation
Supervisory Board
SB
Board
BD
Risk & Compliance
RC
Audit
AU
Remuneration
RE
Capital investment
CI
Industry Specific
IS
Nominations & Governance
NG
Health, Safety & Environment
HS
Social & Ethics
SE
Technology
TE
Executive
EX
Other
OT