Major Mines & Projects | Olympic Dam Mine

Olympic Dam Mine Underground Mine is located 81 km N from Woomera, South Australia, Australia. Data Access; Keep me signed in. ... Location: 81 km N from Woomera, South Australia, Australia Regional Office: 10 Franklin St. Adelaide South Australia, Australia 5000. Contacts: ... (61-3)-9609-3333; Website; ...

About Roxby Downs

Roxby Downs is a town, purpose built to support the Olympic Dam Mine Site. The mine is owned by BHP and produces four products: copper, uranium, gold and silver. ... South Australia Australia 5725 . Monday to Friday. 9:00am to 5:00pm. Closed Public Holidays. PO Box 124 Roxby Downs, South Australia Australia 5725 . Phone: (08) 8671 0010.

BHP unveils first fully electric Jumbo at Olympic Dam

The fully electric Jumbo trial builds on electric vehicle initiatives at Nickel West in Western Australia, Olympic Dam in South Australia and BMA's Broadmeadow mine in Queensland. BHP is also collaborating with Inc. and to develop zero-emissions electrified haul trucks, and battery-electric locomotives with Wabtec ...

Uranium

The Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia is the largest uranium deposit in the world, containing more than 2 million tonnes of uranium oxide. South Australian uranium …

Uranium

The Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia is the largest uranium deposit in the world, containing more than 2 million tonnes of uranium oxide. South Australian uranium mines lead the nation's production with 5497 tonnes of uranium oxide produced in 2020. South Australia hosts four approved uranium mines: Olympic Dam; Beverley and Beverley North

BHP's South Australia expansion: Promising discoveries at Olympic Dam

South Australia has quietly emerged as BHP's (ASX:BHP) future, with the company's December quarter and half-year report hinting at a massive extension of its already huge Olympic Dam copper, gold, silver, and uranium deposit. ... Olympic Dam is already a giant, but BHP also has the highly prospective Oak Dam deposit nearby and …

The Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia

The Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold deposit appears to be a new type of strata-bound sediment-hosted ore deposit. It is located 650 km north-northwest of Adelaide in South Australia and was discovered in 1975. It has an areal extent exceeding 20 km/sup 2/ with vertical thicknesses of mineralization up to 350 m.

Worker dies at BHP Olympic Dam mine site in SA's far north …

A 25-year-old man has died at the Olympic Dam mine site in South Australia's far north, where police responded early this morning to reports of a crash, but BHP says the cause of death is "unclear".

Geometallurgical Modeling at Olympic Dam Mine, South Australia …

At the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, plant performance variables of interest include the recovery of Cu and U3O8, acid consumption, net recovery, drop weight index, and bond mill work index. There are an insufficient number of pilot plant trials (841) to consider direct three-dimensional spatial modeling for the entire deposit. ...

Minerals | Free Full-Text | Numerical Modeling of REE

Trace element signatures in apatite are used to study hydrothermal processes due to the ability of this mineral to chemically record and preserve the impact of individual hydrothermal events. Interpretation of rare earth element (REE)-signatures in hydrothermal apatite can be complex due to not only evolving fO2, fS2 and fluid …

The Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold-silver- rare …

The Olympic Dam polymetallic deposit is located 520 km northnorthwest of Adelaide, South Australia. The deposit has an inferred resource of 2660 Mt at 1.2% Cu, 1.4 kg/t U 3 O 8 ... South Australia in 1957 in the old copper mining district of Moonta-Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula (see Dentith and Cowan, this

The crustal geophysical signature of a world-class …

The Olympic Dam mine in South Australia lies beneath 300 m of cover and is one of the largest IOCG-U deposits globally: it is currently the fourth largest copper and the largest known deposit ...

Activists Block South Australia's Potential Olympic Dam …

A recent report has recommended that she issue a protection order for areas of South Australia's Lake Torrens, potentially halting a mining project that could rival BHP's Olympic Dam, one of the world's largest mining operations.

BHP moves ahead with expansion of Olympic Dam copper …

The Olympic Dam is the fifth largest copper mine in the world, and the uranium deposit. ... "We are already growing BHP's copper production in South …

BHP's Oak Dam adds to enormous copper mines potential in

BHP's Oak Dam mine, approved in 2023 to be explored, would add the enormous amount of copper found in South Australia's north – and the need for water to support the company's operations that extended to the Olympic Dam, …

The mineral chemistry, near-infrared, and mid-infrared …

The rocks investigated for this study originate from the Olympic Dam iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposit at Roxby Downs, South Australia, which is located ~ 560 km north of Adelaide. Worldwide, IOCG deposits are found in a range of rocks, but many Proterozoic deposits, such as Olympic Dam, are found within granitoids ( …

Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: A petrogenetic tool

The Olympic Dam iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)-uranium-silver deposit (South Australia) is hosted in the large Olympic Dam breccia complex within the ~1.59 Ga Roxby Downs Granite.

The mineral chemistry, near-infrared, and mid-infrared …

Phengite is the main potassic dioctahedral mica identified at the Olympic Dam iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposit, South Australia, where its mineral chemistry is quite variable. These differences can be explained by contrasting degrees of hydrothermal alteration.In the heavily-sericitized, ore-bearing rocks, the phengites …

How Olympic Dam went from mother of all digs …

BHP acquired Olympic Dam, located 560km north of Adelaide in South Australia in 2005 and quickly looked for ways to …

Regional Crustal Setting of Iron Oxide Cu-Au Mineral …

Detailed analysis and modeling of regional gravity and magnetic data from the Stuart Shelf around the Olympic Dam iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, constrained by geologic observations obtained from deep drill cores, show that the eastern Gawler craton basement at 1.61 to 1.59 Ga consisted of an Archean core with two sequences of …

Olympic Dam to ramp up after major smelter works

The Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine near the town of Roxby Downs is about 250km north of Port Augusta and is the biggest mining operation in South Australia. BHP this month also exercised its option to form an exploration joint venture with Red Tiger Resources for the Intercept Hill copper project, which borders its Oak Dam …

Feldspar evolution in the Roxby Downs Granite, host to Fe …

The textural relationships and geochemistry of feldspars from least-altered to sericite-hematite altered and mineralised ~ 1.595 Ga Roxby Downs Granite (RDG) at Olympic Dam, South Australia, were examined.The sample suite is representative of RDG both distal (> 5 km) and proximal (< 1 km) to the hydrothermal breccias of the …

Olympic Dam, South Australia

Olympic Dam (30°26'44.30" S, 136°52' 06.31"E), a copper-uranium mine located approximately 570 km north of Adelaide, South Australia, contains the world's largest …

New wind and battery project in South Australia

Neoen expects the construction and operation of this wind and battery project to create approximately 250 construction jobs and 15 permanent jobs in South Australia. BHP Olympic Dam Asset President, Jennifer Purdie said: "The world needs South Australia's high-quality copper to build renewable technologies and infrastructure, and BHP is ...

BHP dumps $3.5 billion expansion at Olympic Dam mine

BHP dumps $3.5 billion expansion plan at Olympic Dam in 'body blow' for SA economy. By Sara Tomevska. Topic: Mining and Metals Industry

Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: A petrogenetic tool

The > 10,000 million tonne Olympic Dam Cu–Au–U–Ag deposit, (eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia) is one of the largest orebodies in the World.The deposit is hosted within the Olympic Dam Breccia Complex, placed at the centre of, and resulting from multiple brecciation and Fe-metasomatism of the Roxby Downs Granite (RDG).

Expanding Olympic Dam: with great power comes great …

The South Australian and Federal governments have approved another expansion at Olympic Dam. This expansion raises some very important questions about Australia's role in the future of global ...

Neoproterozoic (ca. 820–830 Ma) mafic dykes at Olympic Dam, South

Mineralization at the supergiant Cu-U-Au-Ag Olympic Dam deposit (South Australia), the 'uranium endmember' of the iron-oxide copper–gold (IOCG) spectrum of ore deposits, is hosted in a breccia complex developed entirely within granite of the 1.59 Ga Hiltaba Suite (Gawler Craton). Earlier studies suggested brecciation and mineralization ...

Uranium-bearing hematite from the Olympic Dam Cu–U–Au deposit, South

We show that hematite from the Olympic Dam IOCG deposit, South Australia, hosts appreciable amounts of U (W, Mo) in both lattice-bound states and as inclusions. Where uranium is incorporated in the crystal lattice, we investigate the suitability of hematite for U–Pb geochronology using laser-ablation inductively-coupled mass …