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Return of power to BHP's Olympic Dam mine delayed due to high winds

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Power is unlikely to be restored to the area near BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia before Monday, nearly two weeks after a massive outage forced it to shut down, power supplier ElectraNet said on Friday. BHP said the time taken to restore power was "regrettable" and that most operations remained on care and maintenance.
 
 
 
 
 

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