BHP books 700% hike in Chile Spence resource

18 January 2012 By admin

MELBOURNE Jan 18 (Reuters) – BHP Billiton
has booked a near 700 percent increase in the
mineral resource tonnage at its Spence copper mine in Chile, the
top global miner said on Wednesday.

BHP said the total oxide resource at Spence is now 64
million tonnes at 1.01 percent total copper, with a total
resource of supergene sulphide now at 222 million tonnes at 0.91
percent total copper.