The Olympic Dam Mega-Expansion Without Uranium …
is eminently reasonable to propose a process flow sheet for Olympic Dam which does not include recovery of the uranium but still allows for copper, gold and silver to be …
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Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine Expansion Project
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.
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Guidelines for an Environmental Impact Statement
The current operations include the existing SML, the Olympic Dam Village, township of Roxby Downs and several linear infrastructure corridors as shown on Figure 1. The SML is located approximately 570 km NNW of Adelaide in South Australia. Olympic Dam Village is 6km south of the mine and the township of Roxby Downs is 16 km south of the mine.
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BHP dropped plans for Olympic Dam mine expansion in …
The Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine is a combined open-pit and underground mining project that features a fully-integrated processing facility to extract metals. The expansion project was estimated to increase the annual production of copper and associated products from the current 200,000 tonnes to up to 350,000 tonnes and is …
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Expanding Olympic Dam: with great power comes great …
Based on BHP Billiton's 2011 reported mineral resource for Olympic Dam, the contained copper-uranium-gold-silver is worth $587, $284, $154 and $14 billion, respectively – a total of a mere ...
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Olympic Dam Expansion
Production began in 1988 at 45,000 tonnes of copper a year. In 2006 Olympic Dam aims to mine close to 10 million tonnes of ore. The Process The Olympic Dam site is divided into two parts – the mine where the underground mining occurs, and the Process Plant where ore is processed into its final saleable products.
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Staged formation of the supergiant Olympic Dam uranium …
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 …
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Olympic Dam | Energy & Mining
Mining operation and status. Operating. Underground mine with more than 450 km of underground roads and tunnels. Automated train system hauls ore to surface crushing, …
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olympic dam gold process flowsheet – Grinding Mill China
Olympic Dam Refinery Process Flow Diagram. Jul 10, 2010 · Olympic Dam Refinery Process Flow Diagram Shared by: tzv97744. Categories. Technology > Mobile Devices. Tags. olympic dam, iron ore, bhp billiton, … » Free online chat! Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine, Adelaide – Mining Technology. All uranium oxide produced at Olympic …
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EXPANSION AT OLYMPIC DAM
1. INTRODUCTION. WMC is the owner and operator of the Olympic Dam copper uranium and precious metals mine and processing plant in South Australia. The orebody was …
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Australia approves BHP's $20-$30 billion Olympic Dam mine
BHP Billiton moved closer to an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion expansion of its Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine after winning environmental approvals on Monday for the project in the ...
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Major Mines & Projects | Olympic Dam Mine
Mining Method. Sub-level open stoping (SLOS) Production Start. ... Mine Life. 57 years (as of Jan 1, 2022) Olympic Dam is one of the world's most significant deposits …
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AusIMM – Leading the way for people in resources
AusIMM – Leading the way for people in resources
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Olympic Dam mine
The Olympic Dam mine is a large underground mine in South Australia. It is 550 km (340 mi) NNW of Adelaide. Olympic Dam phreatic stage diagram of the volcanogenic uranium deposit. The mine is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world. Copper is about 70% of the mine's revenue. The rest is got ...
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The Olympic Dam Mega-Expansion Without Uranium …
Overview 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, U3O8), gold (Au) and silver (Ag). The deposit was discovered in 1975, and after protracted political controversy and technical challenges, commercial production began in …
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Olympic Dam EIS: Impact of the world's biggest mine
That EIS will lay out what BHP reckons are the environmental effects of expanding its Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold mine near Roxby Downs, in the state's far north. By some estimates the resource is worth a trillion dollars and able to produce some 25,000 tonnes of uranium, half a million ounces of gold and one million tonnes of copper ...
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Prediction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Olympic …
Uranium Copper Uranium Copper Gold Figure 3: Proportional economic value of metals for Olympic Dam (Mudd, 2009a) Historical Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions WMC was the amongst the first mining companies in the world to begin annual reporting on their environmental performance, releasing their first such report in 1995 …
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Olympic Dam mine, Australia
Name: Olympic Dam mine. Location: The mine is located 560 km north-west of Adelaide, in South Australia. Controlling Company: BHP Billiton. Brief History: Olympic Dam was acquired in 2005 as part ...
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Olympic Dam Expansion
The Process The Olympic Dam site is divided into two parts – the mine where the underground mining occurs, and the Process Plant where ore is processed into its final …
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BHP dumps $3.5 billion expansion at Olympic Dam mine
The expansion was slated to increase Olympic Dam's annual copper production from 200,000 tonnes to up to 350,000 tonnes, as well as boosting its level of gold, silver and uranium production.
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Olympic Dam mine, Australia
Location: The mine is located 560 km north-west of Adelaide, in South Australia. Controlling Company: BHP Billiton. Brief History: Olympic Dam was acquired in 2005 as part of the WMC Resources ...
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BHP Olympic Dam: Climate-friendly copper
The $3b proposal would increase Olympic Dam's annual copper production from 200,000t to up to 350,000t and increase the level of gold, silver and uranium production. SA Energy and Mining Minister …
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Olympic Dam
Macmahon conducts underground mine development works for BHP at the Olympic Dam site located at Roxby Downs, 560 kilometres north of Adelaide in South Australia. Olympic Dam is a large poly-metallic mine predominantly mining copper, uranium and gold. Olympic Dam is the sixth largest known copper ore body, fifth largest gold ore body and …
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Radionuclide-bearing minerals in Olympic Dam copper …
Olympic Dam hosts >80 million tonnes of copper, as copper‑iron sulphides, within hematite-dominant gangue. Processing of the relatively fine-grained copper ore is complicated by the presence of by-product uranium and its radiogenic isotopes, in particular 226 Ra, 210 Pb and 210 Po, which partially recover to the final copper sulphide …
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Australia's Uranium Mines
Olympic Dam. The Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine, with the town of Roxby Downs, is located 560 km north of Adelaide, near the opal mining centre of Andamooka. This is an arid part of Australia, receiving only an average of only 160 mm of rain per year, and that rather unreliably. ... At the end of the mine's life, process facilities will be ...
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The Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold-silver- rare …
listed in Table 1. These data make the Olympic Dam deposit the world's largest uranium resource and fifth largest copper resource. There is also a resource of approximately 10 …
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Technical issue disrupts BHP's Olympic Dam copper smelter
The Olympic Dam is the fifth largest copper mine in the world, and the uranium deposit. ( Image courtesy of BHP.) World's mining company BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) revealed Tuesday ...
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OXYGEN SMELTING AND THE OLYMPIC DAM PROJECT
The flowsheet for the Fig. 1 and involves:initial phase of the Olympic Dam project is shown in Milling and flotation of a sulphide copper concentrate; direct smelting to a high sulphur blister copper; refining to anode copper and electrorefining to copper cathode in on on-site refinery. Recovery of uranium from the leach, solvent extraction ...
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Timeline of the Olympic Dam mine
A timeline of South Australia's Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine. ... Timeline of the Olympic Dam mine. 3:59pm Aug 10, 2015 ... BHP Billiton announces a delay in the approval process as it ...
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URANIUM, FROM MINE TO MILL
and the product – uranium oxide concentrate – is the raw material for making nuclear fuel. Conventional In situ leach By-product 41% 54% 5% World uranium production by mining method, 2010 2011 WNA Pocket Guide URANIUM, FROM MINE TO MILL Open Pit Mining Underground Mining Crushing & Grinding Leaching Tailings …
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