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Olympic Dam iron oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit

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posted on 2023-05-24, 04:50 authored by Ehrig, K, Vadim Kamenetsky, Jocelyn McPhieJocelyn McPhie, Cook, NJ, Ciobanu, CL
The breccia-hosted Olympic Dam iron oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit is located 560 km NNW of Adelaide (-30.44°, 136.87°) in the Olympic copper-gold province in northern South Australia (SA). The Prominent Hill and Carrapateena Cu-Au-U deposits are 150 km NW and 100 km SE of Olympic Dam respectively. The total resource (measured, indicated and inferred at September 2016) is 10 400 Mt at 0.77% Cu, 250 ppm U3O8, 0.32 g/t Au and 1 g/t Ag (Table 1). The resource footprint at the top of the Mesoproterozoic basement (that is, the unconformity around 350 m depth) is approximately 6 × 4 × 0.8 km, but with localised occurrences of mineralisation to over 2 km depth. The altered and mineralised rock volume associated with the deposit has an overall areal extent exceeding 50 km2. Olympic Dam is the fifth largest copper, the largest reported uranium and one of the largest gold deposits in the world.

Funding

Australian Research Council

BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation

History

Publication title

Australian Ore Deposits

Volume

32

Editors

GN Phillips

Pagination

601-610

ISBN

9781925100686

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Place of publication

Melbourne

Extent

170

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Uranium mining and extraction

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