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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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BHP has completed a $500 million revamp of its Olympic Dam smelter and is starting to ramp up copper processing again after one of the lowest quarters of production since it took over South Australia’s largest mine in 2005.
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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.
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