World Top Mining Companies List by Market Cap as on Jan 7th, 2022

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 80,000 employees as on June 2020.

Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Revenues of 2019 is $53.8 billion USD per year. The company principally operates through its three primary segments - Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. Headquarters is in USA.

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. Rio Tinto had around 49,000 employees around 35 countries as on 2021.

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

CONOCOPHILLIPS is oil and gas sector company with headquarters in Texas, USA.

Koch Industries is conglomerate company with 14 business sectors. Headquarters is in USA. They have businesses in:

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.

Commodity Trading and Metals and Mining Company. Company has 158,000 employees as on 2018.

China Shenhua is China based Energy and Coal Mining Company.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) is a leading international 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.