5 Biggest Mining Companies In The World

1. BHP Group (NYSE:BHP)

Total market cap of the company (in billions of dollars): 107.1

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 45.8

Total assets of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 102

Total profits of the company in 2019 (in millions of dollars): 9,400

Total employees of the company in 2019: 80,000

Topping the list of the 5 biggest mining companies in the world is BHP Hilton, which is located in Australia and is listed in multiple stock exchanges across the world, including the New York Stock Exchange. The company came into existence in 2001, 19 years ago after the merger of two companies who can trace their history back to the mid and late 1800s. The company is engaged in the mining and production of iron ore, petroleum, coal, nickel, uranium, natural gas and copper.

In 2020, BHP was ranked as the 93rd largest public company in the entire world, even though some assets of the company were demerged in 2015. It is counted as one of the 90 companies in the world who are alone responsible for more than two-thirds of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the world not just in the current year or decade but since the industrial age began, back in 1760.

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