BHP Billiton Selects Washington Site for Potash Export Center

SUGAR LAND--September 22, 2010--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas--The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton Limited (NYSE:BHP) (Melbourne, Australia), is negotiating the terms of a lease with officials from the Port of Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington) to use land to build a potash export center. Representatives from both companies hope to finalize a short-term lease within the next six to eight months so that BHP can retain a 60-acre section of the port's 218-acre Terminal 5 for the construction of the potash export center.

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