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Minerals Americas

The Minerals Americas asset group includes projects, operated assets and non-operated joint ventures in Canada, Chile, Peru, the United States, and Brazil. Our projects focus on copper, iron ore and potash.
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Escondida (Chile)

Escondida, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, is a copper porphyry deposit.
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Pampa Norte (Chile)

Pampa Norte consists of two wholly owned operations in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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Antamina (Peru)

BHP owns 33.75 per cent of Antamina, a large, low-cost copper and zinc mine in north central Peru.
Jansen 2021

Jansen Potash Project (Canada)

The Jansen project is about 140 kilometres east of Saskatoon. BHP has approved more than US$10.5 billion (CAD$14 billion) in capital expenditure for the Jansen project.

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Samarco 2021

Samarco (Brazil)

Iron ore asset

BHP Billiton Brasil and Vale each hold a 50 per cent shareholding in Samarco Mineracao S.A. (Samarco), a NOJV iron ore operation in Brazil. As a result of the tragic dam failure at Samarco in November 2015, its operations were suspended and have only recently restarted.

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Leadership

Brandon Craig

President Minerals Americas

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