BHP to offshores uranium-infused copper processing - 0 views
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Colin Bennett on 05 May 09BHP Billiton will stick to its controversial plan to send uranium-infused copper concentrate to China for processing, if it moves ahead with expanding the showpiece Olympic Dam mine. In its draft environmental impact statement for the Olympic Dam expansion, released in Adelaide yesterday, BHP outlined its most detailed plans yet for the project, which will tap into the world's largest known uranium body and fourth-largest copper deposit.