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BHP sees big copper opportunity in SA

BHP chief operating officer Edgar Basto says the eyes of the world could soon be on South Australia as a new copper province emerges in the Gawler Craton.

Karma Barndon in Adelaide
 BHP chief operating officer Edgar Basto

BHP chief operating officer Edgar Basto

BHP has just finalised its $9.6 billion takeover of OZ Minerals giving it control of Carrapateena and Prominent Hill, as well as its own mine at Olympic Dam. Basto told the Austmine conference in Adelaide,...

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