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Default BHP scraps $123b offer for Rio Tinto

BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, has scrapped its US$66 billion offer ($123 billion) for Rio Tinto Group, blaming the global economic downturn and plunging commodity prices.BHP chief executive Marius Kloppers...

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