Uranium
What Products and Services can we offer?
BHP Billiton produces:
- Uranium Oxide Concentrates
Olympic Dam, located approximately 560km north of Adelaide in South Australia is BHP Billiton's only operation that produces uranium oxide concentrates. In addition it also produces significant quantities of copper, gold and silver which are marketed through the Base Metals marketing organisation. For information on Olympic Dam, see Our Businesses.
Why choose us?
Olympic Dam, 100 per cent owned by BHP Billiton, is the world's largest uranium deposit with an unrivalled resource base and significant long term expansion potential. Olympic Dam is Australia's largest underground mine and produced 4,007 tonnes of uranium oxide concentrate in 2007. BHP Billiton is currently undertaking a two year pre-feasibility study into the expansion of Olympic Dam. It is likely to see the advent of open pit operations in addition to the existing underground mine, and expected to become one of the largest of its type in the world.
The extensive resources at Olympic Dam allow BHP Billiton to offer (ultra) long term agreements for the supply of uranium oxide concentrates. The fact that our resource has the potential to exceed the typical lifetime of a reactor (~60+ yrs), the politically stable location of the project and BHP Billiton's commitment to servicing utilities worldwide provide our customers with the highest degree of security of supply.
Who are our customers?
BHP Billiton delivers uranium oxide concentrate to utility customers exclusively for the generation of electricity in civil nuclear reactors. Olympic Dam has long term contracts for the sale of uranium oxide concentrates to customers in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada and the United States.
Marketing Office
Singapore
10-01 Capital Tower
168 Robinson Rd
Singapore 068912
Phone: (65) 6349 3333
Fax: (65) 6349 4000
This office handles all sales and product enquiries for uranium.
E-mail: Uranium@bhpbilliton.com