Mining Exploration Companies Competition Review, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton Mine Exploration Result Sale


European Union antitrust regulators widened a probe of the BHP plan earlier this month saying they have “serious doubts” about a combination that would control more than a third of the world’s iron ore, the main ingredient in steel. Metals prices dropped 15 percent since March on concern that growth in China, India, the U.S. [...]