Mining in hard times: small teams and big trucks for BHP's Olympic Dam

ROXBY DOWNS, Australia, May 27 (Reuters) - A vast copper and

uranium lode in Australia's parched outback, global miner BHP

Billiton's Olympic Dam was long emblematic of the

industry's boom year projects: complex, ambitious and - until

2012 - slated for a $20 billion expansion.

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