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The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) was incorporated in 1895, operating the mine at Broken Hill in western New South Wales. In 1915, the company ventured into steel manufacture, its operations mainly based at Newcastle, New South Wales. The company grew to become Australia's largest.

The company began petroleum exploration in the 1960s with discoveries in Bass Strait, an activity which became an increasing focus as their manufacturing operations began to become less profitable with the opening of the Australian economy. They began to diversify offshore in a variety of projects. One infamous project was the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of Indonesia). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, and west of the Solomon Islands., where the company was successfully sued by the indigenous inhabitants because of the environmentAn environment is a complex of external factors that acts on a system and determines its course and form of existence. An environment may be thought of as a superset, of which the given system is a subset. An environment may have one or more parameters, pal damage caused by the mine operations.

The inefficiencies of what was, by global standards, a small steel operation in Newcastle finally caught up with the company and Newcastle operations were slowly wound down in the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn, leaving Port KemblaPort Kembla is a town and the name of a harbour or seaport in the coastal part of the Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia near Wollongong. It is essentially an industrial complex (one of the largest in Australia), but also covers a small harbour foresho as their only ironThis article is about metallic iron. For the ironing device, see ironing manganese iron cobalt Fe Ru Full table General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4 , d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3, smelter. The 'long products' side of the steelSteel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. Carbon acts as a binding agent, locking the otherwise easily-moved iron atoms into a rigid lattice. Varying the amount of carbon and its distribution in business was spun off to form One Steel in 2000.

In 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap, BHP mergedThis page deals with the combination of two companies into one. For information about other uses of the word "merge", see merge. In business or economics a merger is a combination of two companies into one larger company. Such actions are commonly volunta with the Billiton mining company to form BHP Billiton, now one of the largest mining companies in the world. The 'flat products' side of steel business was spun off to form BHP Steel in 2002, as part of the merger.