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The expansion of Olympic Dam using heap leach technology is among the higher-risk and lower-return projects on BHP’s radar, the mining giant told investors today.
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Copper prices fell to their lowest level in nearly five months overnight, after a Chinese diplomat ramped up rhetoric that could stoke the trade conflict between the United States and China and possibly erode metals demand.
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BHP has identified a potential new iron oxide, copper and gold mineralised system near its Olympic Dam operations in South Australia as part of a copper exploration program.
The State Government has elevated the former head of BHP’s Olympic Dam mine to lead a renewed TAFE SA board.
Jay Weatherill piggy-backed on a BHP-sponsored media tour of Olympic Dam this morning – not to announce an election policy but to push his jobs message and, more boldly, to send a message of confidence in the state’s electricity system.
Mining giant BHP Billiton has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 in fines and compensation over the death of one of its workers in “foreseeable” circumstances at the Olympic Dam mine in 2015.
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