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Billiton to cut jobs as price falls

BHP Billiton plans to shed hundreds more jobs, adding to the thousands of contractors and employees that have left its operations over the past few years as it continues to cut costs in the face of a falling iron ore price.

Julie-anne Sprague and Tess Ingram
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Welcome to the Pilbara austerity drive – or as BHP Billiton iron ore president Jimmy Wilson likes to call it, an “improvement journey".

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