Followed categories will be added to My News. Police confirmed they were called to Olympic Dam on Friday morning following reports that a person had been found unresponsive on site. A spokesperson ...

SYDNEY—BHP Billiton Ltd. said it would pare back its workforce at the Olympic Dam copper-and-uranium mine in southern Australia amid a push to reduce operating costs. Mining companies have been ...

BHP said the man's death 'remains unclear'. 'We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of our workforce died this morning at our Olympic Dam site,' a BHP spokesperson said. 'The cause of ...

The South Australian government suggested it could be at least a week before Olympic Dam was back up and running in a major blow to BHP’s copper production forecasts. The storms, which lashed ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Police and emergency services were called to Olympic Dam on May 23 after Mr Atkinson suffered a sudden medical episode and died, forcing a halt to ...

An environmental engineer says the Olympic Dam expansion in outback South Australia will leak billions of tonnes of tailings, or process effluent, associated with mining. BHP Billiton estimates ...

BHP Group Ltd. is moving ahead with a major expansion of the Olympic Dam copper smelter and refinery in South Australia, with permit applications now before the state government. The world’s ...

Olympic Dam, a copper and uranium mine in South Australia, was supposed to become one of the biggest man-made holes on Earth, and not the hole it has become on the balance sheet of its owner ...