World Top Precious Metals Companies List by Market Cap as on Jan 7th, 2022

BHP Billiton is Metals, Mining, Petroeum Company with headquarters in Australia. BHP Billiton is trading in London Stock Exchange and Australia Stock Exchange. BHP Group has 80,000 employees as on June 2020.

RIO TINTO GROUP is UK and Australia based Metals and Mining Company. Company producing major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, gold, industrial minerals (borates, titanium dioxide and salt), iron ore, and uranium. Rio Tinto had around 49,000 employees around 35 countries as on 2021.

They are strongly represented in Australia and North America, and also have significant businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America.

VALE is Brazil based Metals and Mining Company having operations in 30 countries. Vale is one of the world’s largest producer of iron ore and nickel. They also produce iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, platinum group metals (PGMs), gold, silver and cobalt.

Vale is the largest producer of Nickel in the World.

In addition to mining, Vale work with logistics like railways, ports, terminals and state-of-the-art infrastructure like energy, and steel making. Headquarters is in Brazil.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. FCX has mining assets and will do mining in copper, gold and molybdenum. FCX is the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer.

Newmont Corporation is Mining company and one of largest producer of Gold in the World with headquarters in Colorado, USA.

Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. ("Zijin" or "the Group") is mainly engaged in the exploration and mining of gold, copper, zinc and other mineral resources. Headquarters is in Xiamen, China.

Mining Company with headquarters in London, UK. Involved in production of Platinum, Diamonds, Nickel, Iron Ore, Copper etc. Global Top Number 1 leader in production of Platinum. Company has 69,000 employees as on 2019.

Franco-Nevada is the leading gold-focused royalty and stream company by both gold revenue and number of gold assets. The Company has the largest and most diversified portfolio of royalties and streams by commodity, geography, revenue type and stage of project. The portfolio is actively managed with the aim to maintain over 80% of revenue from precious metals (gold, silver & PGM). Headquarters is in Canada.