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The Time Is Ripe for Copper’s Biggest Takeover Deal
BHP has a once-in-a-generation chance to buy one of the world’s greatest mineral deposits.
BHP should strike while the copper’s hot.
Photographer: Dadang Tri/Bloomberg
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In times of plenty, you can afford to be picky. When scarcity stalks the land, you may have to lower your standards.
That’s a lesson for BHP Group Ltd. as it scours the globe looking for ways to fill a looming deficit of copper, with the energy transition stoking demand for the conductive metal.