Olympic Dam

BHP reported reduced production across most of its Australian operations for the September quarter as the company underwent planned maintenance.

BHP is on the decarbonisation hunt at Olympic Dam, announcing it will enter renewable energy supply arrangements with Iberdrola to reduce its emissions at the South Australia copper-uranium mine.

BHP has increased its value to local communities at the Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia, including a refuelling contract for Indigenous-owned business, Zancott Knight.

Boom Logistics has re-signed a contract to supply cranes and speciality resources for Anglo American across Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

BHP has high expectations for the future, as first production at the South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara coincides with continued government stimulus and soaring commodity prices.

BHP has awarded a $15 million smelter maintenance contract at the Olympic Dam operation in South Australia to Boom Logistics.

Argonaut Resources has been granted approval by the South Australian Government to conduct a major drilling program around the western shoreline of Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island and the Carrapateena Well.

South Australia has confirmed that mining employees considered as essential workers will be exempt from the state’s six-day lockdown.

BHP has committed to the Copper Mark Responsible Production Framework that covers areas including environment, community, human rights and governance issues.

BHP has selected the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) to provide bulk ore sorting and sensing expertise at the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia.

BHP has recorded another round of promising results during the third phase of Oak Dam exploration drilling in South Australia, cementing the prospect as a long-term growth opportunity for the Olympic Dam copper mine.

DGO Gold has expanded its land holding around a prospective copper target on the Stuart Shelf in South Australia, which also hosts BHP’s Olympic Dam and OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena deposits.

BHP has awarded local construction materials manufacturer Adbri a four-year contract extension at the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia.

BHP has awarded Monadelphous a contract at the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia as one of three agreements between the two companies which combined have a value of approximately $120 million.

BHP is set to trial SciDev’s wastewater treatment chemistry at the Olympic Dam poly-metallic mine in South Australia.

BHP has awarded Swick Mining Services with a five-year underground drilling contract at the Olympic Dam poly-metallic mine in South Australia.

South Australia has a rich history of copper mining, dating back to the 1840s when Cornish miners and their families poured into hubs such as Burra, Kapunda and Moonta to partake in the copper boom.

BHP has overcome COVID-19 to achieve record production at its Western Australian iron ore operations, as well as at the Caval Ridge and Poitrel coal mines in Queensland.

The South Australian Government has advanced BHP’s proposal to increase copper production at the Olympic Dam mine from 200,000 to 350,000 tonnes per annum.

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