The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) started as a silver-lead-zinc mining company in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia in the 1880s. Since then it has diversified into the resource industries of steel, iron ore, coal, petroleum and copper._x000D_
BHP World Minerals is a Business Group of BHP which is one of the world's largest and most diverse mineral resource enterprises. BHP supplies raw materials for steelmaking, copper concentrate and other mineral commodities to customers in more than 45 countries. BHP World Minerals has operations spread throughout the world - in Australia, the United States, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Canada. Commodities produced by BHP World Minerals currently include silver, lead, zinc, titanium minerals, platinum group metals and coal._x000D_
The BHP World Minerals Cannington silver-lead-zinc mine in Queensland, Australia is a return to the cradle of BHP's early silver-lead-zinc years. This paper compares the success factors and challenges at Broken Hill and Cannington.