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.
Escondida, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, is a copper porphyry deposit.
Pampa Norte consists of two wholly owned operations in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
BHP owns 33.75 per cent of Antamina, a large, low-cost copper and zinc mine in north central Peru.
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.
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.
One of the largest undeveloped copper projects in the world, it has the potential to become one of the world's largest and most competitive copper mines.
