BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$8.0B
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Dow Jones Description
Extracting minerals and materials for over 40 years. London, England-based Xstrata Plc (London: XTA) is a diversified metals and mining company. The company exports coal, produces ferrochrome and vanadium, mines and smelts zinc, mines anthracite and harvests wood. These activities are carried out throughout Australia, South Africa, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Chile and its home base of the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1958, has revenue of $8 billion and employs about 17,000 people. In 2005 the company acquired a one-third stake in CerrejAŚn thermal coal operation, a large scale, cost competitive asset with an exceptional reserve base and access to the high growth US and European markets for $1.7 billion, and purchased 19.9% of Falconbridge Limited.
Number of Employees 40,049
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other Metal Ore Mining: 212299
Recent Events
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BlueScope singled out by Xstrata suit
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PRESS DIGEST-Australian Business News - Nov 5
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New Gold Announces a 16% Increase in Production, 17% Decrease in Cash Cost in the...
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Xstrata Q3 output mixed, concern on currencies
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It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Mick Davis Seduces Cynthia's Shareholders
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Three Deals Enter, Two Deals Leave
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Xstrata Drops Anglo American Bid
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Anglo American Is to Shed Managers and Some Units
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Marcial: The Gleam in Barrick Gold
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New Gold Announces 16% Increase in Gold Sales and 17% Decrease in Cash Cost in...
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Xstrata set to put Anglo bid on hold: report
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DJ Xstrata: Won't Exercise Option On Minera Andes Copper Project
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Xstrata abandons Anglo, commits to US$700m expansion
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Xstrata Holds On $48B Anglo Deal
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FNX begins shipping ore
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Deadline set for Xstrata to make Anglo bid
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Glance-Miners, oils, banks drive FTSE to fresh 2009 highs
News & Analysis
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- 2008-03-01
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- 2007-03-01
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Barrick Gold Corp: Corporate Update.
- 2007-02-16
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 February 2007-Pinnacle Digest: Barrick Gold Corp: Corporate UpdateC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16022007 Barrick Gold Corp (TSX: ABX) had a positive day in the markets Thursday, as shareholders witnessed their company's share value increase 0.25 following the exchange of 1,690,727...
Xstrata Nickel Commits US$95 Million, Updates Resource Estimate and Commences Pre-Feasibility Study at Kabanga Joint Venture Nickel Project, Tanzania
- 2007-02-15
Xstrata Nickel announces further investment of US$95 million and the commencement of a pre-feasibility study to advance the Kabanga nickel project located in western Tanzania. An update to the preliminary resource estimate has also been announced for the project, a 50/50 owned joint venture of Barrick Gold Corporation and...
Xstrata Nickel Commits US$95 Million, Updates Resource Estimate and Commences Pre-Feasibility Study at Kabanga Joint Venture Nickel Project, Tanzania.
- 2007-02-15
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Feb 15, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Xstrata Nickel announces further investment of US$95 million and the commencement of a pre-feasibility study to advance the Kabanga nickel project located in western Tanzania. An update to the preliminary resource estimate has also been...
REGIONAL NEWS - U.S. & CANADA
- 2007-01-01
Shell Canada Files Peace River Regulatory Application Shell Canada has filed a regulatory application for development of a 100,000-bbl/d in situ oil sands project at its Peace River complex in northern Alberta. The Peace River complex has been in production since 1979 and is 100% owned by Shell...
Around the world: LATIN AMERICA
- 2006-04-01
Las Bambas Drill Results Encouraging Xstrata Copper's first year of drilling at its Las Bambas copper exploration project in southern Peru has yielded promising results. Indicated and inferred resources across three mineralized systems now total 300 million mt, grading 1.1% copper plus supplementary molybdenum and gold values. Included...
Top 10 miners peer into pits.
- 2005-12-14
Dec 14, 2005 (Australian Mining - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The biggest ten Australian mining companies will participate in mining geomechanics research. They include Anglo American, ...
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