{"id":945000,"date":"2018-08-21T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=945000"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:30:43","slug":"technical-issue-disrupts-bhps-olympic-dam-copper-smelter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=945000","title":{"rendered":"Technical issue disrupts BHP\u2019s Olympic Dam copper smelter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

World’s No.1 mining company BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) revealed Tuesday that ore processing at its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine in South Australia is being affected by an ongoing technical issue.<\/p>\n

Copper production at Olympic Dam is set to reach around 230,000 tonnes by 2021, but there is potential for up to 450,000 tonnes per year.<\/q><\/p>\n

Releasing annual results, the company \u2014 which spent A$600 million<\/a> (about $460m) in fiscal 2018 upgrading the operation \u2014 said it was assessing the impact<\/a> of the ongoing outage.<\/p>\n

The technical issue followed the failure of several boiler tubes at the acid plant, BHP said without offering an expected timeline for operations to resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemediation and mitigation activities are underway, and underground mining operations continue as normal,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The difficulty, Australian Broadcast Corporation<\/em> reported<\/a>, could disrupt production for up to eight weeks, though an exact timeframe is not yet known.<\/p>\n

BHP is pushing ahead with a study into a $2.1 billion expansion of the mine. The board is expected to make a final investment decision in 2020 on the project, which would lift copper production to 330,000 tonnes by 2023.<\/p>\n

The post Technical issue disrupts BHP’s Olympic Dam copper smelter<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From:: Mining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie World’s No.1 mining company BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) revealed Tuesday that ore processing at its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine in South Australia is being affected by an ongoing technical issue. Copper production at Olympic Dam is set to reach around 230,000 tonnes by 2021, but there is potential for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}