Olympic Dam is the Largest Underground Mine in Australia The Olympic Dam operation is a very large polymetallic undertaking with probable and proven copper ore reserves totalling 717 million tonnes, grading at 1.7 percent copper and 0.5 kilogram a tonne of uranium oxide. It is the largest known uranium ore body in the world, the fifth largest ...

The supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit in South Australia is a type example of the iron-oxide copper–gold (IOCG) deposit family. Hosted entirely within heterogeneous breccia in 1.59 Ga granite, the deposit contains a volumetrically substantial and mineralogically diverse component of carbonate minerals.

The metallurgical plant for the treatment of the massive copper-uranium-gold deposit at Olympic Dam in South Australia is currently under construction. ... SILVER URANIUM SX ACID TO HYDROMET PLANT URAMUM PRECIPITATION SLAG FLOTATION COPPER ELECTROIMN CIRCUIT TAILINGS YELLOWCAKE MINE SAND …

Project Description. BHP Olympic Dam engaged Outotec to design and construct the Slag Flotation Plant on the Olympic Dam process plant site to treat recovered slag product from the smelter to increase copper …

Roxby Management Services Pty Ltd, Olympic Dam, Australia Cu smelting / DB 1988 Compania Minera Disputada de las Conde s SA, Chagres, Chile Cu smelting 1995 Kennecott Utah Copper Corp., Sal t Lake ...

Table 5 presents the assumptions used to calculate the potential for the HyS cycle to mitigate CO 2 emissions from copper production based on the situation relevant to Olympic Dam in South Australia. For this plant, electricity is presently drawn from the South Australian (SA) grid, which already has an estimated 60% penetration of …

The world's largest uranium resource at Olympic Dam, South Australia, is exceptional because the high abundance of U allows U-Pb dating of ore minerals. The …

Olympic Dam is on the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton and is one of the world's most significant deposits of copper, gold, silver and uranium. The deposit is unconformably overlain by about 300 m of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian age, flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the Stuart Shelf.

An Olympic Dam Task Force was even set up to streamline the process further. Olympic Dam Expansion – ODX – would place the operation in the top three globally, adding 515,000 tonnes of copper ...

The Olympic Dam project in northern South Australia is based on a very large mineral deposit which contains copper (Cu), uranium (commonly expressed as uranium oxide, U ... The Olympic Dam deposit was first discovered in 1975 by Western Mining Corporation (later to be WMC Ltd) and, after extended project difficulties and political controversies ...

BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam (OD) is one of the world's largest ore bodies located around 550km north/northwest of Adelaide. It has high-quality deposits of copper, gold, uranium and silver, and is known as the fourth largest copper deposit and the single largest uranium deposit in the world. The ore body at OD was discovered in 1975 and ...

Olympic Dam. The facilities are now operated by WMC (Olympic Dam Corporation) Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of WMC Limited. The regulatory framework and approvals process The operations at Olympic Dam are regulated by the Rohr Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982, which was ratified by the South Australian Parliament in June …

The world's largest uranium resource at Olympic Dam, South Australia, is exceptional because the high abundance of U allows U-Pb dating of ore minerals. The Olympic Dam U(-Cu-Au-Ag) ore deposit is hosted in ca. 1.59 Ga rocks, and the consensus has been that the supergiant deposit formed at the same time. We argue that, in fact, two …

Plant performance since commissioning has justified the approach for metallurgical test work and equipment choices for the flotation circuit. INTRODUCTION OZ Minerals Limited's Prominent Hill copper-gold mine is located 650 km NW of Adelaide, 130 km NW of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam operation and 130 km SE of the town of Coober

By September 2010 the project had treated some 126.07 million tonnes (Mt) of ore, with average grades of 2.40% Cu, 0.069% U3O8 and about 5.8 g/t Ag and 0.56 g/t Au, to …

The ore is crushed underground and treated in a copper sulphide flotation plant. Uranium minerals from the tailings and copper concentrates are recovered by acid leaching. A $28bn expansion project has been planned for Olympic Dam, which would increase the mine's annual uranium oxide output to more than 15,000t, making it the …

South Australia, Olympic Dam is one of the assets in the BHP group of companies which has deposits of copper, gold, silver, and uranium. Olympic Dam is made up of underground and surface operations and operates an integrated processing facility from ore to metal. The underground mine is made up of more than 450 kilometers of underground roads and

processing operation at Olympic Dam in northern South Australia, 560 kilometres north of Adelaide. The orebody at Olympic Dam is the world's fourth largest copper resource, the largest known deposit of uranium and also has rich deposits of silver and gold. The proposed Olympic Dam Expansion is centred on

The flotation capacity was increased again in FY2003 with the addition of the latest Jameson cells. Smelter investments include the copper IsaSmelt plant in 1994 and an expansion in 1998–1999. During 2004, Xstrata decided to add 40,000tpa of copper output by slag treatment and related developments, and also approved a 2,500tpa …

The Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia was chosen as a case study region. It is one of the largest Cu-U-Au-Ag deposits in the world (Ehrig et al., 2012).The Australian government provides a ...

Olympic Dam at a glance. Located 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, Olympic Dam is a part of our Minerals Australia operation. It's made up of underground and surface operations and operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal.

The Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine expansion project in Southern Australia will increase the production of copper and associated products of the Olympic Dam mine from the current 200,000 tons per annum (tpa) to 350,000tpa. The expansion project was recognised as a significant project by the South Australian government in February 2019.

Mar 2015 - Feb 2016 1 year. Brisbane Area, Australia. Led an organization that designs, manufactures, installs and commissions metallurgical processing equipment used in the treatment of refractory precious and base metal ore. Provided technical support to operations across multiple geographies.

The metallurgical plant for the treatment of the massive copper-uranium-gold deposit at Olympic Dam in South Australia is currently under construction. This joint …

Recovery of copper in concentrates from slags cooled in the induction furnace and ground for 30 minutes ranged from 87.1 to 96.2 percent with the best recovery obtained on the highest grade slag sample. Copper content of the flotation tailings, which is the most important indicator, ranged from 0.26 to 0.39 percent.

"BHP has committed to investing $1.5 billion in Olympic Dam over the next two years, amounting to 1,500 jobs." BHP did not indicate an alternate timeline for the Brownfield Expansion in its ...

Flotation, dump leaching and SX/EW – 265: MDO (Mining Data Online), 2020o: Sentinel: Zambia: Sediment-hosted: Cu: Open Pit (Truck and Shovel/loader) Flotation: 14: 250: MDO (Mining Data Online), 2020p: Olympic Dam: Australia: Iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) Cu, U, Au, Ag: Underground (sub-level open stoping) Flotation …

Characterising Olympic Dam. Since the late 1980s, CSIRO's Diffraction, Mineralogy and Geochemistry unit has worked on, among many other projects, the giant Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia, an …

The Olympic Cu-Au Province is a metallogenic province in South Australia that contains one of the world's most significant Cu-Au-U resources in the Olympic Dam deposit. The Olympic Cu-Au Province also hosts a range of other iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits including Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. This paper reviews the geology of …

Olympic Dam, South Australia, is a giant (>10 bill. tonne) IOCG deposit. On-site mining-smelting-refining operations produce copper cathodes, U3O8 concentrate, and gold and silver bullion. The ...