World Largest and Top Copper Mining Companies List by Market Cap of July 2023

BHP Billiton is Metals, Mining, Petroeum Company with headquarters in Australia. BHP Billiton is trading in London Stock Exchange and Australia Stock Exchange. BHP Group has 79,471 employees as on June 2022.

The annual production of BHP is 248 MT of Iron Ore, 1,724 KT of Copper, 109 MMboe of Petroleum, 41 Mt of Metallurgical Coal. The top 5 markets where BHP business of China is across is 25,576 Million USD in China, 3,904 Million USD in Japan, 2,666 Million USD in South Korea, 2,232 Million USD in Australia and 2,583 Million USD in Rest of Asia.

 

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Minerals Australia

The Minerals Australia asset group includes operated assets in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. Our assets focus on copper, iron ore, coal and nickel.

Rio Tinto Group is UK and Australia based Metals and Mining Company. Company producing major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, gold, industrial minerals (borates, titanium dioxide and salt), iron ore, and uranium. Headquarters is in UK.

They are strongly represented in Australia and North America, and also have significant businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America.

Mining Company with headquarters in Mexico. Company produces and refines Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc, Silver, Lead. Company has over 14,301 employees as on 2019.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) is a mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. FCX has mining assets and will do mining in copper, gold and molybdenum. FCX is the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer. FREEPORT-MCMORAN portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits; and significant mining operations in the Americas, including the large-scale Morenci minerals district in North America and the Cerro Verde operation in South America. The safety and health of all employees is our highest priority.

As on 2022, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. has 25,600 employees.

VALE is Brazil based Metals and Mining Company having operations in 30 countries. Vale is one of the world’s largest producer of iron ore and nickel. They also produce iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, platinum group metals (PGMs), gold, silver and cobalt.

Vale is the largest producer of Nickel in the World.

In addition to mining, Vale work with logistics like railways, ports, terminals and state-of-the-art infrastructure like energy, and steel making. Headquarters is in Brazil.

VALE Company has 64,516 employees as on 2022.

Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. ("Zijin" or "the Group") is mainly engaged in the exploration and mining of gold, copper, zinc and other mineral resources. Headquarters is in Xiamen, China.

MMC NORILSK NICKEL is Mining and Metals company with headquarters in Russia and producing nickel, pelladium, copper, platinum.

Norlsk Nickel is the second biggest producer of Nickel in the World.

Ma'aden is a Mining and metals company with headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mining primarily related to gold, zinc, phosphate, aluminum, and industrial minerals.

 

Anglo American is Mining Company with headquarters in London, UK. Involved in production of Platinum, Diamonds, Nickel, Iron Ore, Copper etc. Global Top Number 1 leader in production of Platinum. Company has 90,000 employees as on 2020.

Grupo Mexico has business in mining, railway transportation and infrastructure.

As part of mining business, it is involved in copper mining and iron and steel mining.

As part of railway transportation business, it operates 11,131 km of track in 24 states of the Mexican Republic and the states of Florida and Texas in the USA.

As part of infrastructure business, more than 200 large works built in 24 states of the Mexican Republic.