It also announced its intention to delist from the London Stock Exchange and consolidate on the.
In 1983 alone, nearly a third of the Steel Division's employees were made redundant.
Its main office locations are in Australia, the U.
Those included the in Papua New Guinea, where the company was successfully sued by the indigenous inhabitants because of the caused by mining operations.
In 1997, it received permission from the Canadian government to begin mining a major trove of diamonds in that country's Northwest Territories.
The accident was one of the biggest environmental disasters in Brazil's history.