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Module 14 of 15, 9 minute read

Case study: BHP and Anglo American

The largest mining approach in a decade failed less on price than on structure. BHP wanted Anglo American’s copper, not its platinum or its South African iron ore.

A dirt haul road running between huge waste dumps in the desert
Escondida, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, in 2005. The world’s largest copper mine is run by BHP, which tried and failed to buy Anglo American in 2024 to add more copper.Photo: Pierre J.-P. Bachelot, CC BY-SA 3.0

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