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BHP approves $2 billion Escondida water project

Frik Els | July 25, 2013 | 6:30 pm Base Metals Latin America Copper 

World number one miner BHP Billiton on Wednesday approved an investment of $1.97 billion for its share of the construction of a new 2,500 litre per second sea-water desalination at its flagship Escondida copper mine in Chile. The more than...

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