Repairs under way to restore power to Olympic Dam mine – power company

Repairs to transmission lines damaged in a freak storm last week that would restore power to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper mine could be completed by early next week, power supplier Electranet said on Wednesday. Olympic Dam remains on care and maintenance, said a BHP spokesman, who could not say when production might resume. The storm blacked out all of South Australia state on September 28.