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Can you help us reduce energy consumption or increase throughput by delivering potential step change in the way we crush, pulverise and grind rocks for mineral extraction? Click learn more to continue reading about the challenge.

Extracting copper effectively, particularly from low-grade deposits, is of high importance both for BHP and the global market given its practical use in household appliances and electric vehicles. Heap leaching is one such method for extracting copper from low-grade deposits. This method involves stacking crushed ore piles in a heap and percolating an oxidising agent through them.


Welcome to the Nitrous Lockxide Open Call. Can you help us unlock new heap leaching technologies that will effectively recycle and repurpose future-state NOx gases. Click learn more to continue reading about the challenge.

Can you help us gather better subsurface data to improve the extraction of critical minerals?

Potash (potassium chloride) is used primarily as an agricultural fertilizer. It is one of the three primary plant macronutrients along with nitrogen and phosphorus.

Measuring the impact of BHP's Local and Indigenous spend. Closes 12th December.

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