The world's biggest mining company BHP Billiton saw a huge leap in profits on the back of soaring prices for iron and copper in the first half of the year... more
World's biggest miner expects weak growth on both sides of the Atlantic to persist for many years as Europe and the United States deal with their debt crises... more
BHP Billiton shares slip 2% as it announces a move to increase its presence in the shale gas market with a massive $12.1billion (£7.5billion) deal... more
Rio Tinto looks set to abandon its $116 billion iron-ore joint venture with rival BHP Billiton, a deal unpopular with customers, regulators and many of Rio Tinto's own investors... more
BHP Billiton debt spread grows wider than rival Rio Tinto’s for the first time in more than two year, as credit agencies warned its rating would be downgraded... more
London steel kingpin Lakshmi Mittal joins the row over the stranglehold Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vale have on world iron ore supply, as he warned steel prices would leap 21% this year... more
Could a bidder be circling for BG Group? The spotlight once again fell on the perennial takeover target today but this time it was BHP Billiton — the world’s biggest listed miner... more
Chris Campbell, the man responsible for overseeing BHP Billiton's vast Western Australia iron ore joint venture with Rio Tinto, has been appointed president of its iron ore business... more
The price of copper shot up $55 to $6150 (£3846) a tonne on the London Metal Exchange today to give a two-day rise of $90 after a mechanical failure at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine in Australia ... more
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, today admitted that it has slashed the price of the coal it sells to major steelmakers by 58% after a slump in demand ... more
Mining: The world’s largest miner BHP Billiton has underlined the growing pain of the resources sector with a 57% slump in first-half profits as demand for its products and the prices of metals plummet... more
Profile: After four decades at Shell, Paul Skinner swapped refining for mining. Now his sharp brain and calmness under fire could
put him right at the top of the oil business... more
Mining: Shares in Rio Tinto crashed 35% after the year-long attempt to create a titan of the global economy through a merger with fellow mining giant BHP Billiton was aborted... more
Global mining giant BHP Billiton has produced another stellar quarterly production report, with a new record in iron-ore output and big gains in oil and gas as new projects pick up speed... more
What a strange world we live in when every twist and turn in the sale of a minor former building society in Newcastle commands the attention of politicians, bankers and the media, but elsewhere a proposal that will create a monopolistic giant bigger than BP or Shell sails serenely forward with almost no one paying attention... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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