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A $15m government-funded business case for an Eyre Peninsula desalination plant is primarily aimed at delivering water to expand mining in remote areas and revisits an earlier plan abandoned by BHP.
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A desalination plant could be built in the Upper Spencer Gulf to ease reliance on existing water sources used by miners in the state’s north
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Oz Minerals has played down strong copper and gold production at its South Australian mines in the September quarter in the wake of the death of a Prominent Hill worker last month.
A plan to power half of BHP’s Olympic Dam operations with electricity from renewable sources at Port Augusta is set to be inked between the mining giant and Spanish company Iberdrola.
Royalties paid to the South Australian government by BHP surpassed $100 million in 2020-21 on the back of booming production at Olympic Dam and strong copper and gold prices.
Mining giant BHP has agreed on a proposal to merge its oil and gas business with Woodside Petroleum as it announced a financial year profit of $15.5 billion (US$11.3 billion).
