Overview
BHP Group Limited is an Australia-based global resources company focused on mining and producing copper, iron ore and coal. Its portfolio also includes a potash project in Canada. BHP’s operations and interests span Australia and the Americas, including Chile, Peru, Brazil, Canada and the United States. Its stated purpose is “bringing people and resources together to build a better world.” [1][2]
BHP traces its origins to 1885 and has its principal executive offices in Melbourne. It reported US$51.3 billion in revenue for the financial year ended 30 June 2025, indicating the scale of its global mining business.[3][4][5] [6][1][2][3][4][5]
Products & services
BHP’s principal saleable products are copper concentrate and cathodes, iron ore fines and lump, and steelmaking coal. Copper cathodes are refined metal, while concentrate is a processed mineral product for further refining; copper is used in electrical equipment and infrastructure. Iron ore is a steelmaking input. BHP’s coal products include hard coking, semi-hard coking, semi-soft coking and pulverised coal injection grades, which serve different roles in steel production.[7][8][9]
BHP is developing Jansen to produce muriate of potash, a potassium fertiliser; it was not yet a producing business in FY2025. Its Western Australia nickel operations have produced nickel matte, powder, briquettes and nickel sulphate, including material for batteries, but were temporarily suspended from October 2024. Some copper operations also recover other metals, including gold, silver and uranium.[10][11][12][13]
In FY2025, copper and iron ore each accounted for about 44% of group revenue; coal accounted for about 10% and Western Australia Nickel about 1.5%. These are commodity-level shares, not shares for individual product grades; coal revenue includes products other than steelmaking coal.[5] [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][5]
Geographic presence
BHP’s operating footprint is concentrated in Australia and South America. Its Australian locations include Western Australian iron ore, Queensland coal and copper operations in South Australia; its South American interests include Escondida and Pampa Norte in Chile, Antamina in Peru, and Samarco in Brazil. BHP also has the Jansen potash project in Canada. Its global headquarters are in Melbourne, with corporate offices in London and Santiago and a commercial office in Singapore.[14][15][16][17][18]
Customer locations differ substantially from this operating footprint. In the year ended June 2025, China accounted for US$32.1 billion, or approximately 62.6%, of BHP’s US$51.3 billion in revenue. Japan accounted for US$4.2 billion (8.1%); the rest of Asia, US$3.3 billion (6.5%); South Korea and India, approximately US$2.7 billion each (5.2% each); and Australia, US$2.5 billion (5.0%). North America, Europe and South America together represented approximately 7.4% of revenue. These figures classify sales by customer location, not where the products were produced.[19]
BHP reported 41,463 employees in 2025, of whom 31,191 (75.2%) were in Australia and 7,795 (18.8%) were in South America. Asia accounted for 1,631 employees, North America for 749 and Europe for 97.[20] [14][15][16][17][18][19][19][19][19][19][19][19][19][19][19][20][20][20][20][20][20][20][20]
Business segments
BHP reports three principal commodity segments: Copper, Iron Ore and Coal. Copper comprises Escondida and Pampa Norte in Chile, Antamina in Peru, and Copper South Australia; its operations produce copper alongside by-products that include gold, silver and, in South Australia, uranium. Iron Ore comprises Western Australia Iron Ore and Samarco in Brazil. Coal includes the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s steelmaking-coal operations and New South Wales Energy Coal.[21][22][23][24][25]
In the year ended 30 June 2025, Copper generated approximately 44.0% of group revenue, Iron Ore 44.7% and Coal 9.8%. The remaining 1.5% was reported as Group and unallocated items, which include the Jansen potash project and Western Australia Nickel rather than a separate nickel or potash segment. These percentages are based on reported revenue, not production volumes or profit.[26][27][28] [21][22][23][24][25][26][26][26][26][26][27][28]
Company history
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was incorporated in Australia in 1885, following the discovery of silver and lead at Broken Hill. It expanded into steelmaking when its Newcastle works opened in 1915, and acquired Australian Iron & Steel in 1935. By the 1960s, BHP had broadened beyond steel: it discovered petroleum in Bass Strait in 1965, while its Mt Newman project made its first iron ore shipment in 1969.[3][29][30][31]
BHP Limited merged with Billiton Plc in 2001 to form BHP Billiton. The group demerged a collection of assets into South32 in 2015, changed its legal names to BHP Group Limited and BHP Group Plc in 2018, and unified its corporate structure under BHP Group Limited in 2022.[32][33][34][35] [3][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]
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