South Australia’s Tom Koutsantonis is confident the miner will this year approve the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine, containing a world class copper-gold uranium deposit, even though it will cost billions of dollars.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=146871&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
There are huge concerns about the pollution which this project will cause.
See article on Olympic Dam on page 15 of ‘Dirty Energy’ report at http://bhpbillitonwatch.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bhpb_report_sml.pdf.