Mine detail: Olympic Dam Project

Previously called 'Roxby Downs'

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Location

Lat / long:

-30.44623, 136.88217

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	REE, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Bastnaesite, Bornite, Brannerite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Coffinite, Hematite, Pitchblende, Pyrite, Siderite, Silver
Gangue:	Anhydrite, Barite, Carrollite, Chlorite, Florencite, Fluorite, Magnetite, Quartz, Rutile, Sericite, Tourmaline
Orebody form:	STRATIFORM
Discovery year:	1975

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1988

Geology

Host rock:	Olympic Dam Breccia Complex
Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Roxby Downs Granite
Associated type:	Granite
Tectonic:	Graben
Alteration processes:	Hematitization, Sericite-Quartz

References

MRDS	W700475
DEP	10085038
Reference	{Deposit:: KENNEDY, A., 1988, OLYMPIC DAM PROJECT: MINING MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 1988, P. 330-344.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987, P. 9-10.}{Deposit:: COX, D.P. 1986, DESCRIPTIVE MODEL OF OLYMPIC DAM CU-U-AU, IN COX, D.P. AND SINGER, D.A., EDS., MINERAL DEPOSIT MODELS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1693, 379 P.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, DECEMBER, 1988, P. 11-12.}{Deposit:: REEVE, J.S., CROSS, K.C., SMITH, R.N., AND ORESKES, N., 1990, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 2: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 1009-1035.}
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E., Orris, Greta J.