BHP to increase uranium productionIn a general announcement about productivity in November 2014, BHP Billiton flagged a 27% increase in copper production at Olympic Dam from 2018 by streamlining haulage and treatment, and a doubling from that level subsequently by “a low-risk underground expansion with significantly lower capital intensity than the previous open cut design. This has the potential to deliver over 450,000 tonnes of copper production a year at first quartile C1 costs by the middle of next decade.” The uranium implications are not mentioned, but assuming the same head grades, it would mean 5000 t U3O8 from 2018 and some 10,000 t/yr in mid-2020s.
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