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BHP and the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre are pleased to announce a $500,000 donation from BHP to SFBLC's Plant Possibility Campaign. The donation will support a new food warehouse and learning campus, as the SFBLC expands to meet the city's increasing need for safe, affordable and nutritious food. Poverty and hunger are overwhelming realities for the people turning to the SFBLC each month. In the last ten [...]

BHP and YWCA Saskatoon are pleased to announce a $500,000 investment from BHP to YWCA's Hope Lives Here campaign. In 2022, YWCA Saskatoon's Crisis Shelter & Residence turned away a staggering 4,253 women and children in need. Hope Lives Here is the organization's largest capital campaign ever. With a fundraising goal of $19 million, the campaign is funding a new transitional housing wing that will more than double YWCA [...]

BHP and Carlton Trail College are pleased to announce the recipients of the BHP Jansen Scholarship Program for 2023. The scholarship provides combined support of over $82,000 to 26 youth pursuing post-secondary education and training opportunities in a field of their choosing. Carlton Trail College is a partner in this initiative, administering the program on BHP's behalf. "Access to post-secondary education and skills [...]

Hope's Home is pleased to announce BHP has invested $150,000 to provide an essential nursing station at the new medically inclusive childcare centre in Saskatoon. As the only medically inclusive childcare centers in Canada, Hope's Home provides care where kids with complex medical and typical needs can learn, grow, and thrive. With on-site nurses providing medical care to children, Hope's Home is a national leader filling [...]

BHP has announced its second cohort of six companies, chosen from a pool of over 500 applicants, to join the BHP Xplor accelerator program. The accelerator program is designed to support early-stage mineral exploration companies in finding the critical resources needed to support the energy transition. Each company will receive a grant of up to US$500,000 together with access to a network of internal and external industry [...]

TransAlta Corporation and BHP Group Ltd. announced today that the 48 MW Northern Goldfields solar and battery storage facility has achieved commercial operation and is now supplying reliable electricity to BHP's remote nickel mining operations in Western Australia. "We are extremely pleased that this innovative hybrid renewable solution is now supplying reliable, emissions-free power to BHP's mining operations in the [...]

BHP today announced the approval of an investment of C$6.4 billion for Stage 2 of the Jansen potash project , doubling BHP's investment in potash as the company builds one of the world's largest potash mines, located approximately 140 kilometres east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This follows BHP's approval of C$7.5 billion for stage one of the Jansen potash project in August 2021, and a pre-Jansen Stage 1 investment of [...]

SASKATOON, SK, Sept. 26, 2023 /CNW/ - BHP is pleased to announce a AUD$3 million three-year partnership with Indspire, a leading national Indigenous registered charity in Canada that provides bursaries and scholarships to Indigenous students pursuing post-secondary education and training. BHP's commitment will help to empower Indigenous students across the country to achieve their educational goals. This partnership will [...]

A new collaboration between BHP and Microsoft has used artificial intelligence and machine learning with the aim of improving copper recovery at the world's largest copper mine. The use of new digital technology to optimise concentrator performance at BHP's Escondida operation in Chile is expected to improve copper recovery. BHP Chief Technical Officer Laura Tyler said by augmenting new digital technology capabilities [...]

In a first for the mining industry, BHP has published a pilot case study on the application of natural capital accounting principles in the mining sector. The 'Natural Capital Accounting for the Mining Sector: Beenup Site Pilot Case Study' , based on a case study at BHP's closed and rehabilitated Beenup Mineral Sands site in southern Western Australia, is the first attempt at trialling natural capital accounting within [...]