GRAPHICS: What’s the plan? Corporate polluters lag on setting climate goals

Australia's non-bulk mining industry "will die without a strong pipeline of projects moving to development stage," says study.

The division contributed just $746 million of the $21.12 billion earnings BHP reported for the 2013 financial year.

Tighter border controls are set to disrupt the flow of essential supplies and even workers trying to get to work at the African country's mining operations, companies say.

After the WHO declared the current outbreak an “international public health emergency.”

Profits double after CEO Sam Walsh trims $3.2 billion of fat six months ahead of target and announces another $1 billion in cuts by end-2015.

As BHP considers the sale of almost all of the businesses that Billiton brought to the 2001 merger deal, experts say the firm is likely to end up leaving London.

Currently China is the second largest producer of the red metal, with an annual output of about 1.6 million tonnes per year.

World's largest mining company said to be unloading all of the non-core units acquired after the merger with Billiton 13 years ago.

The news comes of the heels of the creation of a new aluminum division, BHP Billiton Aluminum Pty Ltd.