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BHP Billiton was formed in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc, forming a dual-listed company. The Australia-registered Limited has a primary listing on the Australian Securities Exchange and is one of the largest companies in Australia by market capitalization. The English-registered plc arm has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
In 2015 the company was involved in the Bento Rodrigues
tailings dam collapse, the worst environmental disaster in the history of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
In 2015, some Billiton assets were severed and rebranded as South32, while a scaled-down BHP Billiton became BHP and, in 2018, BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc became BHP Group Limited and BHP Group Plc, respectively.
History.
History Billiton.
Billiton was a mining company founded 29 September 1860, when its articles of association were approved by a meeting of shareholders in the "Groot Keizerhof