b'1996Maralinga nuclear Olympic Dam Getting readytesting rehabilitation mining services for Sydney 2000Rehabilitation of the Maralinga NuclearThiess Contractors is appointedThiess Environmental Services is the Testing site in South Australia begins.principal contractor on the undergroundlargest remediation contractor on the The project, involving excavation andexpansion of the Olympic Dam mine,Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics site burial of radioactive material, is ofwhich contains one of the worldsat Homebush Bay. Thiess contractors a size and complexity never beforelargest ore bodies, producing copper,go on to build the Homebush Bay attempted in Australia. uranium, gold and silver. The expansionexhibition hall as part of the Sydney project is reported to be one of theOlympics preparations. It is the largest largest and most complex projects dome of its type in the Southern in Australia. Hemisphere.Maralinga Rehabilitation Project,Homebush Bay, late 1990s. Remediating the South Australia, c. 2000. Homebush site leading into the 2000 Olympicswas an intense but ultimately successful project.72'