BHP’s Olympic Dam copper mine is out of action for a week after large electricity transmission towers transporting power to northern South Australia were damaged by wild storms.
The mine, about 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, has temporarily halted its operations, and its surface infrastructure was switched to “care and maintenance” mode, running off backup generators.
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