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 ...

When mining giant BHP Billiton announced on Wednesday that Chief Executive Chip Goodyear would retire from the company by the end of 2007, the company's chairman, Don Argus, said Goodyear had played a ...

Breaking up might be hard to do but in the mining world it can also be quite profitable, as shareholders in the world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, discovered earlier today. Shortly after the ...

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 ...

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