bhp news23 Aug 2022 08:59
Accelerated identification (and presumably acquisition) of copper resources:
22 August 2022
BHP introduces BHP Xplor, a cohort-based accelerator program to support early-stage mineral exploration start-ups find critical resources, such as copper and nickel, to drive the energy transition.
Through this program, we hope to create disruptive results in copper and nickel exploration by identifying new concepts, leveraging new data and testing opportunities at a much faster pace than discoveries to date.
Johan van Jaarsveld, Chief Development Officer, BHP shares, “The demand for future facing commodities, such as copper and nickel, needed to support the global energy transition is forecast to increase in the coming decades – the launch of BHP Xplor will help us accelerate in finding these critical commodities now and into the future.”
https://www.bhp.com/news/articles/2022/08/meet-bhp-xplor