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The former BHP Billiton logo. BHP Group Limited, also known as Broken Hill Proprietary Company and formerly as BHP Billiton is an Australian multinational mining and metals public company that was founded in August 1885 and is headquartered in Melbourne.
In 2005, WMC Resources was acquired by BHP, which bundled WMC's nickel assets under its Nickel West brand, which became the largest nickel producer in the state, producing a combined 67,000 tonnes out of the 180,000 tonnes produced in Western Australia in 2004–05. At the time of the WMC acquisition by BHP, the smelter employed over 900 people ...
Kambalda Nickel Operations or Kambalda Nickel Mine is a surface and underground nickel mine as well as a nickel concentrator, near Kambalda East, Western Australia.The deposit was discovered in 1954 and the mine opened in 1967, operated by WMC Resources which was taken over by BHP in 2005.
A hearing in a lawsuit against BHP over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam, will begin at London's High Court on Monday, with claimants seeking up to 36 ...
The nickel deposit at Leinster was discovered in 1971 by Western Selcast Pty Ltd. [2] To develop this asset, the Agnew Mining Company was formed in 1974, of which 60 percent were owned by Western Selcast and 40 percent by MIM Holdings, and development of the mine started in 1976, with underground mining commencing in 1978 in what was then referred to as the Agnew Mine.
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Soon after developing its Kambalda nickel deposit, the Western Mining Corporation, WMC, started looking into the possibility of producing refined nickel.The company decided to use the Sherritt Gordon hydrometallurgical ammonia-leach process for this purpose and selected Kwinana as the location for its new refinery, based on the availability of power and water supply, raw materials and the ...
In 2001, Henry was seconded to BMA. By 2003, Henry had permanently joined BHP. In 2016, Henry took responsibility for BHP's Minerals Australia operation, the core of which revolves around its Iron Ore assets. [2] [3] On 1 January 2020, Henry took over as CEO of BHP from Andrew Mackenzie. [4]