Escondida outcome seen as disaster for BHP as workers return
The end of a historic strike at Chile’s Escondida copper mine, the world’s biggest, has left its owner, BHP Billiton, nursing an estimated $1 billion loss and probably in a…
RWE npower, Colombian coal is killing our children! Close Aberthaw!
…with coal dust from BHP Billiton‘s massive Cerrejón coal mine. In this open letter, Luz Ángela Uriana Epiayu implores RWE npower to shut down its stinking, obsolete and illegal power…
BHP Billiton back into the black, pays higher-than-expected dividend
World’s largest miner BHP Billiton injected fresh optimism into the mining industry Tuesday after announcing it had swung from loss to profit for the first half of the 2017 financial…
Striking miners at BHP’s Escondida block roads, clash with police
Workers at the BHP Billiton’s Escondida mine in Chile, the world’s biggest copper mine, blocked several access roads Wednesday as they complete their third week of striking, triggering violent confrontations…
Church investors' visit to Colombian coal mines causes concern
…it is disturbing that the agenda was organised primarily by and with mining companies like Cerrejón (Glencore, Anglo American, BHP Billiton) and Prodeco (Glencore). There was a clear lack of…