BHP has awarded a $40m contract to progress the proposed expansion of its copper smelting and refinery facilities at the Olympic Dam operations in South Australia’s Far North. A joint venue ...

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BHP aims to increase copper production in South ... Phase 1 involves an upgrade of the existing smelter and refinery at Olympic Dam to a two-stage smelter configuration, with concentrate smelting ...

A BHP Billiton and Vale joint venture in Brazil is facing its first civil lawsuit over the dam collapse at its iron ore mine on November 5 that buried a town and contaminated the region's main river.

with Anglo’s copper assets widely seen as a key BHP target. In South Australia, it is developing a “copper province” through linking its Olympic Dam mine 570km north of Adelaide with the ...

On Thursday the UN said the dam burst at the Samarco mine unleashed a flood equivalent to “20,000 Olympic swimming pools ... did not pose any threat to humans. BHP said: “The tailings that ...