Original article by Matt Chambers, Barry FitzGerald
The Australian – Page: 17 : 29-Jul-14

The Australian Environment Department has received an application by BHP Billiton, which wants to run a test facility for a new heap leaching process. Its success will be crucial to the expansion of BHP’s Olympic Dam copper and uranium asset in South Australia, which was forecast to cost $A30bn but was abandoned in 2012. BHP notes that even if the trial runs to plan, the upgrade of the mine will not occur before 2020. The proof of concept heap leaching plant will be used for three years from October 2016

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