MELBOURNE, Mar 14, 2010 –

BHP Billiton Ltd. ( BHP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) said Monday the Hay Point coal terminal near Mackay in Queensland state, a key export port for coking coal, remains closed due to bad weather conditions.

The coal terminal, which is part of BHP Billiton’s coking coal alliance with Mitsubishi Corp. (8058.TO), has been closed sine the morning of March 11.

“We will continue to monitor conditions to decide when it is safe to reopen the terminal,” a spokeswoman for the miner said.

The company said it expects to recover any impact from the outage over the course of the fiscal third quarter.

-By Alex Wilson, Dow Jones Newswires; 61-3-9292-2094; alex.wilson@dowjones.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

03-14-10 2330ET

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