When our resources giant, BHP, ‘the Big Australian’, reported last month that it seeks its future prosperity much more in the Americas (north and south) than under home soil, it was not only on the basis that these resources provided an appropriate and potentially rewarding opportunity. As CEO Mike Henry readily volunteered, BHP’s potentially massive move into copper in Argentina (adding to its existing huge Escondita operation in Chile and more in Peru that together made its South American copper empire four times larger in revenue terms than BHP’s under-performing South Australian ventures) was influenced by the ‘positive package’ of...