| Lat / long: | -30.44623, 136.88217 |
| 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 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Yes |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| First production started: | 1988 |
| Host rock: | Olympic Dam Breccia Complex |
| Host type: | Granite |
| Associated rock: | Roxby Downs Granite |
| Associated type: | Granite |
| Tectonic: | Graben |
| Alteration processes: | Hematitization, Sericite-Quartz |
| 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. |