ABSTRACT
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resource company at the start of the 21st century, did business in the fields of aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, with interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, and diamonds. In 1995, it began a feasibility study for building an aluminum smelter project in the Maputo province in southern Mozambique.
