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Olympic Dam upgrade underpins expansion plans

ANALYSTS at JPMorgan believe BHP Billiton’s reported 75% increase in the total resource at its Olympic Dam mine supports massive expansion plans for the world’s largest miner.

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Olympic Dam upgrade underpins expansion plans

In its 2007 annual report handed down yesterday, the mining major reported the total resource for the South Australian project stands at 7.74 billion tonnes at 0.87% copper, 0.29kg per tonne uranium oxide,...

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