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Als :: Denmark | about 20 hours ago
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BHP Billiton has offloaded its troubled Ravensthorpe nickel mine, selling it to First Quantum Minerals Australia Pty Ltd for $US340 million ($A376.02 million) and at the bottom end of expectations...Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has chastised Westpac for...
Tags: BHP Billiton, BHP BILLITON LTD, Denmark, Als, Penny, Rio Tinto Group, S&P/ASX 50, Business Finance, Australian Securities Exchange, Suncorp-Metway, Banks of Australia, Cent
Steel industry fights Rio's tie-up with BHP
Brussels :: Belgium | 1 day ago
Credibility Eurofer, the European steel industry body, last night called on the European Union to block BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto's iron ore joint venture in Western Australia, arguing that the tie-up between the two mining giants will lead to "market concentration"....
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd., First Quantum Minerals Ltd., First Quantum Minerals Australia, Belgium, Brussels, Business Finance, Broken Hill, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto Group, Rio Tinto, Marius Kloppers, Christopher Lynch, Pilbara region of Western Australia, Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto espionage case, Fitch Group, WMC Resources, Ravensthorpe Western Australia, Iron ore
BHP takeover of UMC draws closer
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility UMC announced on Tuesday that it had cancelled a one-for-10 rights issue of more than 15 million new options. The rights issue had been aimed at securing a major investment from a Chinese company. UMC announced the rights issue on October 10 but, nine...
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd, UMC, rights issue, Australia, Melbourne, Business Finance, Broken Hill, BHP Billiton
Warrants offer chance to exploit weak UK market
London :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility It now costs $41.19 to buy a BHP Billiton Ltd share on the ASX but £18.58 ($A33.60) to buy a BHP Billiton plc share on the LSE. It costs $71.20 to buy a share in Rio Tinto Ltd on the ASX, but £31.72 ($A57.38) to buy a Rio Tinto plc share in London. This...
Tags: Rio Tinto Ltd, BHP Billiton Ltd, London Stock Exchange, ASX, Australian Securities Exchange, price difference, listed share, United Kingdom, London, Warrant, Equity securities, Rio Tinto Group, Business Finance, Corporate finance, Stock market, Types of companies, BHP Billiton
BHP denies Rio back-sliding on iron ore JV
Shanghai :: China | 14 days ago
Credibility Global miner BHP Billiton ( BHP.AX ) dismissed talk on Thursday that its iron ore partner, Rio Tinto ( RIO.AX ), was baulking at their proposed $116 billion joint venture and said they were close to a binding agreement. Rio Tinto ( RIO.L ) and BHP Billiton...
Tags: Minara Resources Ltd., BHP Billiton AGM, BHP Billiton Ltd., Ravensthorpe, iron ore, MCC, China, Shanghai, BHP Billiton, Business Finance, Broken Hill, Minara Resources, Marius Kloppers, Rio Tinto Group, Ravensthorpe Western Australia, Nickel, Economic geology, Jinchuan Group, Ore, Rio Tinto espionage case
Watchful Argus has eyes for an improving market
Melbourne :: Australia | 26 days ago
Credibility The BHP Billiton chairman, and board member of Australian Foundation Investment Company, put half a million dollars or thereabouts into the scrip of both companies. Now, Mr Argus hasn't been in the BHP market since the end of June 2007. Since then he's...
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd, donald argus, Mr Argus, Australia, Melbourne, Webjet, BHP Billiton, Broken Hill, Scrip, Business Finance
Ravensthorpe bidders dwindle down
Sydney :: Australia | 26 days ago
Credibility BHP Billiton's failed Ravensthorpe nickel operation in Western Australia are due November 25, two people familiar with the situation said today. Resources as well as Poseidon Nickel and China Metallurgical Group (MCC), remain in the running to take...
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd., Ravensthorpe, Australia, Sydney, Andrew Forrest, Glencore, Fortescue Metals Group, Ore, Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, Business Finance, Economic geology, BHP Billiton, Broken Hill, Nickel, Minara Resources
OECD 'holds key to commodity prices'
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility BHP Billiton’s chief executive sounded a cautionary note at the group’s annual general meeting yesterday, saying that it will be the middle of next year before the world’s biggest mining group would know if demand for commodities had stabilised...It is...
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd, China, general meeting, chief executive, annual general, London, Marius Kloppers, executive marius, Rio Tinto, commodity prices
BHP iron ore output soars to record
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The resources group's iron ore production rose to 30.106 million tonnes in the three months ended September 30, from 29.824 million tonnes the same period in 2008. The result was helped by the start of operations at its three pellet plants in Samarco,...
Tags: BHP Billiton Ltd., iron ore, olympic dam, million tonnes, force majeure, ore production, bhp iron
Don't Miss the Return of Big Mining
Vale :: Portugal | about 1 month ago
Credibility The big mining companies do a terrific job of scouring the earth for everything from alumina to zinc. But lately they've become equally good at involving themselves in geopolitical skirmishes, either with their own governments or those of other countries,...
Tags: iron ore, BHP Billiton Ltd., Vale
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