A day after the release of BHP's quarterly results, news hit that operations at the company's Olympic Dam mine have been temporarily halted after transmission infrastructure was damaged by ...

BHP (NYSE:BHP) said Friday it is moving ahead with a major expansion of the Olympic Dam copper smelter and refinery in South Australia, and has begun an application and assessment process before ...

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A BHP Billiton and Vale joint venture in Brazil is facing its first civil lawsuit over the dam collapse at its iron ore mine on November 5 that buried a town and contaminated the region's main river.

On Thursday the UN said the dam burst at the Samarco mine unleashed a flood equivalent to “20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud”. A BHP Billiton and Vale joint venture in Brazil is ...

Following the success of the Crows in the inaugural season of the AFL Women’s Competition, BHP – through its South Australian Olympic Dam operation – will support the team for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 ...

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer argued Thursday that global mining giant BHP Group should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse poured tons of toxic ...

BHP owns 50 per cent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates the iron ore mine where the tailings dam ruptured on November 5, 2015. Enough mine waste to fill 13,000 Olympic-size swimming ...