Mining giant BHP is looking to get copper-rich in Africa with the $198bn behemoth striking a $40m deal to take control of two Botswana copper projects.

BHP owns Olympic Dam, the world's largest known uranium deposit. However, Australia's uranium industry has stagnated, with production banned in Western Australia and Queensland. Only three mines ...

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 ...

BHP chief executive officer Mike Henry has reaffirmed the company’s copper aspirations and financial strength during his speech at the BMO Global Metals, Mining and Critical Minerals Conference.

BHP's Olympic Dam operations represents the base of the Australian copper expansion. However, he does see a near future where there’s slower sustained growth taking place on iron ore and future ...

It will also decide within the next two years whether to spend several billion dollars expanding its South Australian copper division with the construction of smelter at Olympic Dam. BHP revealed ...

BHP's portfolio of Tier 1 copper assets (like Escondida and Spence in Chile, as well as Olympic Dam in Australia) affords the company a competitive advantage over other copper producers.

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 ...