{"id":264744,"date":"2025-08-10T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264744"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:10:52","slug":"the-deal-that-could-unlock-australias-next-mining-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264744","title":{"rendered":"The deal that could unlock Australia\u2019s next mining hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pilbara is past its peak. Australia\u2019s coal sector is in decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our rare earths industry is still in its infancy. The country needs a new mining hero, and BHP\u2019s Olympic Dam project could be the best bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mining giant would like to double production from its South Australian copper business\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5l5xa\">to about 650,000 tonnes a year by the middle of the 2030s.<\/a> Clearly, that\u2019s not guaranteed, but on Monday a potential stumbling block was taken off the table when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=238000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"BHP Copper SA creates major logistics solution with Aurizon\">BHP announced a 10-year logistics deal with Aurizon<\/a> worth about $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP\u2019s Olympic Dam expansion could be Australian mining\u2019s next big thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15419,47],"tags":[17713,17714,7527],"class_list":["post-264744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurizon","category-rail-news","tag-olympic-dam","tag-port-of-adelaide","tag-south-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264745,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264744\/revisions\/264745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}