BHP Plans Multi-Billion Dollar Upgrade at Olympic Dam

From The Age (Melbourne):

BHP Billiton expects growing global demand for nuclear power to ensure viability for a proposed $5 billion upgrade at its Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine.

The project would see uranium production ramped up four-fold at the world's biggest uranium deposit, in South Australia, from 2013.

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