| Location: | South Australia, Australia, Oceania |
| Lat / long: | -30.44623, 136.88217 |
| dep_id: | 10085038 |
| mrds_id: | W700475 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver |
| Trace mineral: | REE, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| 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_fm: | STRATIFORM |
| model: | 195: Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au |
| alteration: | Hematitization, Sericite-Quartz |
| Reporter: | Paidakovich, Matthew E., Orris, Greta J. |
| hrock_unit: | Olympic Dam Breccia Complex |
| hrock_type: | Granite |
| arock_unit: | Roxby Downs Granite |
| arock_type: | Granite |
| tectonic: | Graben |
| Year first produced: | 1988 |
| disc_yr: | 1975 |
| discr: | Western Mining Corp. |
| References: |
- 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.
|