Anglo American’s South Africa investors open to improved BHP bid
Anglo American’s key South African shareholders are open to a takeover offer from BHP, with some advocating for an additional cash component to the bid, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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BHP-Anglo American deal raises alarm in Japan’s steel industry
Japanese steelmakers have raised concerns with Australian authorities that BHP Group could become too dominant in the global supply of coking coal if it goes ahead with a takeover of Anglo American.
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Anglo American’s South Africa investors open to improved BHP bid
Anglo American’s key South African shareholders are open to a takeover offer from BHP, with some advocating for an additional cash component to the bid, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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BHP-Anglo American deal raises alarm in Japan’s steel industry
Japanese steelmakers have raised concerns with Australian authorities that BHP Group could become too dominant in the global supply of coking coal if it goes ahead with a takeover of Anglo American.
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Botswana vows to protect interests in potential BHP-Anglo deal
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi vowed to protect the country’s interests, including its 15% stake in diamond giant De Beers, should BHP Group Ltd. acquire Anglo American Plc.
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BHP insists Anglo American’s South African assets must go in any takeover
BHP’s plan to divest the South African assets of its target Anglo American are key to the strategy behind the proposed takeover and is expected to be a part of any revised offer, investors briefed on the miner’s thinking said.
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BHP bombshell puts South African mining in a hole
BHP has put South Africa and its mining sector on the spot. The $140 billion Australian group’s ambitious swoop on rival Anglo American would see one of the Rainbow Nation’s most familiar companies largely withdraw from the country more than a hundred years after it was founded. The question is whether the government in Pretoria can stop the $39 billion transaction – and whether it should.
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Anglo CEO meets South Africa mines minister after BHP’s takeover proposal
Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad is meeting on Friday South African mines minister Gwede Mantashe for the first time since the miner rejected BHP Group’s $39 billion takeover bid, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Chinese miners see opportunities as BHP’s mega bid unfolds
China’s leading metals companies, including its state iron ore buyer, are considering their next moves following BHP Group’s blockbuster $39 billion approach for rival Anglo American Plc, potentially the largest mining deal in over a decade.
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BHP CEO flies to South Africa to push $39 billion takeover
BHP Group (ASX: BHP) has deployed a senior team including its chief executive officer to South Africa as the world’s largest miner ramps up efforts to win over government officials, regulators and local shareholders, all of whom could yet determine the outcome of its proposed tie-up with rival Anglo American.
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As BHP weighs firm bid for Anglo, investors fret over cherry-picking assets
BHP Group can’t cherry pick Anglo American assets without paying a hefty premium, Anglo investors told Reuters, concerned that they stand to lose heavily by holding shares in South African subsidiaries.
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Anglo under pressure to reveal plans to fend off BHP as Elliott hikes stake
Anglo American faced calls from shareholders on Monday to detail plans for improving its value in order to fend off bidder BHP, as activist investor Elliott further raised the stakes by increasing its holding in the takeover target.
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BHP’s bid for Anglo casts cloud over $9 billion fertilizer mine
BHP Group Ltd.’s proposal for a $39 billion takeover of rival Anglo American Plc is all about securing plenty of copper supplies — so now, the potential deal is throwing uncertainty over the future for Anglo’s massive fertilizer mine in England.
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Vale sees no impact from BHP-Anglo deal on Minas-Rio project
Brazilian miner Vale SA sees no impact from BHP Group’s bid for Anglo American on the latter’s Minas-Rio project, its CEO Eduardo Bartolomeu said on Thursday.
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Anglo American confirms non-binding offer from BHP
Anglo American Plc said it is has received an unsolicited non-binding combination proposal from BHP Group.
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Anglo American confirms non-binding offer from BHP
Anglo American Plc said it is has received an unsolicited non-binding combination proposal from BHP Group.
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BHP targets Anglo American in bid valued at $39 billion
BHP Group Ltd. proposed a takeover of Anglo American Plc that values the smaller miner at £31.1 billion ($38.8 billion), in a deal that would catapult the combined company’s copper production far beyond its rivals while sparking the biggest shakeup in the industry in over a decade.
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China’s younger steel industry slows net zero path, BHP CEO says
China’s steel industry is young compared to Europe’s, and its transition to net zero may be slower as it takes a different path to reach government-mandated decarbonization goals, according to BHP Group Ltd.’s chief executive officer Mike Henry.
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BHP becomes first miner in Chile to exceed 40% female representation
BHP, the world’s largest miner, has come a long way in the matter of female representation in its workforce, particularly in Latin America, becoming this year the first mining company in Chile in which women account for 40.8% of its staff.
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BHP says nickel faces “difficult multi-year run”
BHP Group on Tuesday logged first-half underlying profit that slightly beat analyst expectations, buoyed by strong iron ore prices, and said inflationary impacts were receding.
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BHP supports women and children in need
BHP has shown up to support vulnerable women and children with a $CAD500,000 ($571,050) donation to the YWCA Saskatoon Hope Lives Here campaign.
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Fleet Space technologies launches expert-in-residence program, appoints former BHP VP
Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian company specializing in space-enabled mineral exploration, has launched an experts-in-residence (XIR) program, which it said will act as an internal group of industry leading experts that will support and advise on the company’s efforts to accelerate mineral exploration globally.
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BHP Australia iron ore train drivers to strike for 24 hours
Iron ore train drivers at BHP Group’s Pilbara operations in Western Australia have voted to strike on Friday in a bid to secure an improved employment agreement, the country’s Mining and Energy Union said on Monday.
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BHP to review $9.7 billion charge over Brazil dam failure
BHP said on Friday it had yet to receive a formal notification from Brazilian authorities about a court decision sentencing it to pay 47.6 billion reais ($9.7 billion) in damage repairs over a burst tailings dam in 2015.
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BHP flags possible writedowns at nickel unit on low prices
BHP Group said on Thursday it was reassessing the value of its nickel operations after a price slump, in a move that could lead to writedowns amid an oversupply of the metal used in electric vehicle batteries.
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