BHP Billiton Publishes Its Production Report for the Nine Months Ended 31 March 2010

BHP Billiton published Production report for the nine months ended 31 March 2010.

Alumina production was higher than all comparative periods due to the continued ramp up of the Alumar refinery expansion and increased volume from Worsley. Alumar refinery ramp up period has been extended and will reach expanded capacity in late calendar year 2010. In the March 2010 quarter, Worsley recovered all the hydrate stockpiled during the calciner outage in the September 2009 quarter.

Aluminium production across all operations was in line with comparative periods.