BHP 'strikes largest gold mine'
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BHP Billiton is set to reveal much higher-than-expected gold reserves at an Australian site, a report says.
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SYDNEY: BHP Billiton said it has approved a copper project in northern Chile costing 990 million US dollars and the expansion of its iron ore operations in Western Australia.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Anglo-Aussie miner BHP Billiton (BHP) (UK:BLT) climbed 2.8 percent to lead FTSE 100 components after it increased its share buyback to A$2.27 billion (US$1.78 billion) from the A$1 billion to A$1.5 billion it had predicted it would buy
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc ,  the world&#39;s biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40  billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc., the  Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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A consortium led by Chinaâs biggest gold mining company, the Zijin Mining Group, has made a $185.4 million bid for the British copper mining company Monterrico Metals in what could become Chinaâs first outright takeover of an overseas listed company. The acquisition would be the latest in a series of low-profile but substantial purchases of overseas mining assets by Chinese companies, part of the countryâs quest to diversify supplies of strategically important resources. Monterrico, which is based in London, holds rights to the still-undeveloped Rio Blanco copper and molybdenum deposits in northern Peru, which the company says could yield up to 25 millions tons of copper ore a year. Zijin holds a 45 percent share in the consortium, with a Chinese copper mining company, Tongling, taking 35 percent and Xiamen C& D, a trading and real estate conglomerate, holding 20 percent, Zijin said.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, has doubled its profits in the second half of the year on the back of booming global commodity prices.
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The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton has reported a record first-half profit of 6.168 billion dollars, and said it expected China to continue to drive global demand for commodities.
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SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The world&#39;s largest diversified miner, BHP Billiton, has lifted net profit more than 80 percent to a record $3.51 billion on increased output for eight major products.
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc.   the world's biggest miner, warned on Friday that big profits in  the industry on the back of soaring metals prices will not  necessarily mean more industry share buybacks.
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Platinum, used in jewellery and auto  catalysts, jumped to another record high above $2,000 an ounce  on Monday, on lingering power supply which disrupted mining in  main producer South Africa.
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SYDNEY: Australia&#39;s BHP Billiton the world&#39;s biggest miner, said yesterday that China is likely to be a catalyst for an extended price rise in metals.
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NEW YORK, October 5  - BHP Billiton Limited (BHP.NYS), the world&#39;s largest mining company, has announced its plans to return up to A$1.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's No.1 miner, formally launched a $147.4 billion takeover bid on Wednesday for rival Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc .
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A strike over pay at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine shows no sign of ending.
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JAKARTA An internal company report warned top executives at Newmont Mining, the world&#39;s largest gold producer, in 2001 that the company was putting tons of toxic mercury vapors into the air in Indonesia.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest miner, will buy back as much as A$1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) of its Australian stock as part of a plan to return profit from soaring commodity prices to investors.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday announced Australia&#39;s biggest ever annual net profit, US$3.51 billion (euros 2.84 billion), thanks to soaring demand.