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BHP Billiton is the biggest natural resources group in the world, bigger and more powerful than the mining titans Rio Tinto and Anglo American. It is a key player in the most important geopolitical dramas of the era: the race to secure the earth's remaining mineral deposits; the battle for global energy security; and the struggle against global warming. Heavy Metal is much more than the business profile of the industrial colossus created by the 2001 merger of two mining giants, Australia's BHP and South Africa-based, UK-listed Billiton, into BHP Billiton Limited (based in Melbourne) and BHP Billiton Plc (based in London). It is the first book to examine the group's extraordinary origins, its bloody boardroom coups and its industrial track record in countries as disparate as China, India, Australia, the UK, the USA, South Africa, Mozambique, Chile and Indonesia. These provide a clear guide to the company's future strategies as the human species battles with the horrific potential of rising seas and radical climate change. Thompson and Macklin examine how one of the stars of Big Business operates from the gilded salons of the Square Mile to some of the most wretched parts of the developing world, where the demands of modern industry fatefully impinge on the lives of millions of people, many of whom are scraping an existence on the poverty line.
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