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From old BHP complex to Karo: Implats weighs new

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April 21, 2026

No sector does a corporate faceplant quite like mining; tales of projects gone awry are legion.

One from Zimbabwe involves BHP’s 10-year odyssey of misspend at the Hartley Complex, which, true to the genre, tells of 10 years of upfront capital for a paltry return. By the time BHP brought the curtain down on Hartley in 1999, it had earned a mere $40m after $585m in expenditure.

Yet 26 years later,.

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