Overview
BHP Group Limited is a global resources company that explores, develops and produces commodities used in steelmaking, electrification and food production. Its stated purpose is “to bring people and resources together to build a better world.” [1] Its principal producing businesses are Copper, Iron Ore and Coal, with potash also under development.[2]
BHP operates across Australia and the Americas, including Canada, Chile, Peru, the United States and Brazil, and says it works in more than 90 locations.[3] In FY2026, its revenue was US$58.760 billion; the company describes its workforce as more than 80,000 employees and contractors.[2][4] [2][1][3][4][1][3][4]
Products & services
BHP’s copper products include copper concentrate and cathodes. In FY2026 it produced 1,952.8 kt of copper—1,425.8 kt in concentrate and 527.0 kt as cathode. Its copper operations also yield gold, silver, lead, zinc, molybdenum and uranium; across the group, FY2026 by-product output included 571 koz of gold, 17.9 Moz of silver and 3.6 kt of uranium.[5][6][7]
Iron ore is sold mainly as lump and fines. FY2026 saleable production was 264.717 Mt across WAIO and Samarco; WAIO sales included 82.737 Mt of lump and 171.640 Mt of fines. BHP describes lump as direct blast-furnace feed and fines as material used in sinter plants. Its coal products include hard, semi-hard and semi-soft coking coal, as well as pulverised coal injection (PCI) grades. FY2026 BMA sales comprised 18.094 Mt of hard coking coal and 0.548 Mt of energy coal; NSW Energy Coal sales were 16.665 Mt.[5][8][9][10]
BHP’s Commercial function includes sales and marketing, customer insights, sales-and-operations planning, maritime and supply-chain activities. Potash is a planned product rather than current production: Jansen is designed to produce red standard and red granular muriate of potash, with guaranteed minimum 60% K₂O; stated Stage 1 and Stage 2 capacities are approximately 4.15 Mtpa and 4.36 Mtpa, respectively. Copper accounted for 54% of FY2026 Underlying EBITDA, an earnings contribution rather than a share of revenue.[11][12][13][14][15] [5][5][5][5][5][5][5][5][5][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Geographic presence
BHP’s FY2026 operating footprint spans Australia, Chile, Peru and Brazil. Its Australian operations include WAIO in the Pilbara, BMA mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin and South Australian operations; in the Americas, its operations include Escondida and Pampa Norte in Chile, Antamina in Peru and Carajás in Brazil.[16][17][18][19]
Sales are reported by customer location. China accounted for US$34.2 billion, or about 58% of FY2026 revenue; Japan contributed 9.9%, India 6.2%, South Korea 5.5% and Rest of Asia 6.2%. Australia represented 4.9%, North America 4.6%, Europe 3.7% and South America 0.8%. Percentages are calculated from reported revenue of US$58.8 billion.[20]
FY2026 employee-location data shows the workforce concentrated in Australia (30,684, about 75%) and South America (7,598, about 19%), with 1,620 employees in Asia, 867 in North America and 94 in Europe. BHP’s registered office and global headquarters are in Melbourne; its corporate directory also lists corporate-centre locations including London, Santiago and Singapore.[21][22][23] [16][17][18][19][20][20][20][20][20][20][20][20][20][20][21][21][21][21][21][22][23]
Business segments
BHP’s FY2026 reportable business segments are Copper, Iron Ore and Coal; it reports Potash and Nickel within “Group and unallocated items,” rather than as additional reportable segments.[24][25]
Copper focuses on copper production, including operations in Chile, Peru and South Australia.[26] Iron Ore is principally based on Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) in the Pilbara.[27] Coal includes BHP Mitsubishi Alliance in Queensland and New South Wales Energy Coal.[17] In FY2026, the three segments contributed approximately 54%, 43% and 3%, respectively, of reported segment underlying EBITDA.[28] By revenue, their approximate shares of Group revenue were 49% for Copper (US$29.0bn), 41% for Iron Ore (US$23.9bn) and 10% for Coal (US$5.6bn); these shares are calculated from reported segment revenue and total Group revenue.[28] [24][25][26][27][17][28][28][29]
Company history
BHP traces its origins to the discovery of silver-lead ore at Broken Hill in 1883 by Charles Rasp and the formation of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company in 1885. It expanded beyond mining into steel when its Newcastle Steelworks opened in 1915, and broadened its international interests with the 1984 acquisition of a major part of Utah International.[30][31][32][33]
BHP and Billiton completed their merger in 2001, forming BHP Billiton; subsequent major additions included WMC Resources in 2005, bringing in Olympic Dam, and Petrohawk Energy in 2011. The company demerged South32 in 2015, unified its corporate structure as BHP Group Limited in 2022, and completed its acquisition of OZ Minerals in 2023.[34][35][36][37][38][39]
In 2022, BHP’s Petroleum business merged with Woodside. In 2026, Brandon Craig became CEO, succeeding Mike Henry.[40][41] [30][41][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
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