BHP Billiton
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| Traded as | : : BHP : BBL ASX: BHP JSE: BIL |
| Industry | Metals and Mining |
| Founded | Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) 1885; Billiton plc 1860; Merger of BHP & Billiton 2001 (creation of a DLC) |
| Headquarters |
Melbourne, Australia (BHP Billiton Group & BHP Billiton Limited) London, United Kingdom (BHP Billiton Plc) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Andrew Mackenzie (CEO) Jacques Nasser (Chairman) |
| Products | Iron ore, coal, petroleum, copper, natural gas, nickel & uranium |
| Revenue |
 A$61.2 billion (2015) |
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US$8.67 billion (2015) |
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| Profit |
US$1.91 billion (2015) |
| Total assets |
US$124.6 billion (2015) |
| Total equity |
US$64.76 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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29,670 (2015) |
| Website | www |
BHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is the world's largest mining company measured by 2015 market values and Australia's fourth largest company (by revenue), formerly the largest.
BHP Billiton was created in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc. The result is a dual-listed company. The Australia-registered BHP Billiton Limited, which has equal financial share in the company, has a primary listing on the Australian Securities Exchange and is one of the largest companies in Australia measured by market capitalisation. The UK-registered BHP Billiton Plc has a primary listing on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
BHP Billiton global headquarters & Australian registered (corporate) office is located at 171 Collins St, Melbourne CBD, Australia.
Billiton was a mining company whose origins stretch back to 29 September 1860, when the articles of association were approved by a meeting of shareholders in the Groot Keizerhof hotel in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Two months later, the company acquired the mineral rights to the tin-rich Billiton (Belitung) and Bangka Islands in the Netherlands Indies archipelago, off the eastern coast of Sumatra.
Billiton's initial business forays included tin and lead smelting in the Netherlands, followed in the 1940s by bauxite mining in Indonesia and Suriname. In 1970, Shell acquired Billiton accelerated this growth. The tin and lead smelter in Arnhem, the Netherlands, was shut down in the 1990s. Billiton owned a tin smelting and refining plant in Phuket, Thailand called Thaisarco (shorted from-Thailand smelting and refining company limited), which still exists today.
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