FILE - Mining giant BHP Billiton logo sits on the outside of their head office in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Shares in U.K.-based mining giant Anglo American surged Thursday, April ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Top global miner BHP's focus on expanding its own copper assets while it undergoes leadership change means it is unlikely to gatecrash the planned $53 billion tie-up of Anglo ...

Fintel reports that BlackRock has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 340.70MM shares of BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP). This represents 6.7% of the company. In their previous filing ...

It is official. Oil giant BP is buying $10.5 billion worth of U.S. shale assets from mining company BHP Billiton. The miner has had a troubling time managing the shale plays since it purchased them in ...

Investors with an interest in Mining - Miscellaneous stocks have likely encountered both Billiton (BBL) and BHP (BHP). But which of these two stocks presents investors with the better value ...

After months of speculation, BHP Billiton - the world's largest mining company - launched a takeover bid for Rio Tinto - the world's third largest miner. However, Rio Tinto rejected the bid saying it ...

A planned expansion of the Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine in South Australia has been scrapped by BHP Billiton after studies of the ore body questioned the viability of the project. It has ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - BHP Billiton, the world's top miner, issued the following statement saying it was dropping its $66 billion (44 billion pound) takeover bid for Rio Tinto, citing concerns about ...

LONDONLONDON — Shares in U.K.-based mining giant Anglo American surged Thursday after it received a 31 billion-pound ($39 billion) takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton, a deal that would create ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Shares in U.K.-based mining ...