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Australia
Olympic Dam Mine

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 Location:
81 km N from Woomera, South Australia, Australia

  Regional Office:
10 Franklin St.
Adelaide
South Australia, Australia
5000
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Uranium
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Sub-level open stoping (SLOS)
Production Start...
Mine Life57 years (as of Jan 1, 2022)
Olympic Dam is one of the world’s most significant deposits of copper, gold, silver and uranium. It comprises underground and surface operations, and is a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal.

Olympic Dam has entered into a renewable energy supply arrangement to enable the asset to draw energy supplies from a solar-wind hybrid plant to reduce the Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity consumption by 2025.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnershipInvestor's Info
BHP Group Ltd. 100 % Indirect
BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Olympic Dam is owned by the BHP Billiton Group through its wholly owned subsidiary BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd (ODC).

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Deposit Type

  • IOCG


Summary:

RD1 drilled through 335m of flat-lying Proterozoic and Cambrian sediments before passing through an unconformity into haematite altered basement rocks. In theory the copper mineralisation was supposed to be in the overlying sediments but assays revealed fine-grained hypogene chalcocite in the basement. RD1 returned 38m @ 1.05%Cu, which was considered uneconomic at these depths at this time, but RD10 changed that with an intersection of 170m @ 2.12%Cu and 0.58kg/t U3O8 and is considered the “Discovery Hole”.

However, following initial underground development in 1985-1987, it became apparent that none of the mineralisation was stratabound and that it was hosted in a highly variable magmatic-hydrothermal breccia complex that displays multiple brecciation, diatreme intrusions, mafic and ultramafic dyke intrusions along with interpreted gravity collapse of high level volcanic edifice material. The deposit is considered to be a member of the Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) family of deposits and has a close temporal and spatial association with the Hiltaba Suite of granites, dated at 1590Ma and more specifically the more fractionated and oxidised Roxby Downs subsuite (1588Ma).

The main lithologies at Olympic Dam comprise a continuum of breccias starting at the periphery with granite clasts set in little haematite matrix progressing into the centre where the clasts are wholly haematite in a haematite matrix. The principal gangue minerals are haematite, sericite a ........


Mining Methods

  • Sub-level open stoping (SLOS)


Summary:

Ore mined underground is hauled by an automated train system to crushing, storage and ore hoisting facilities or trucked directly to the surface.

The Olympic Dam ore body begins about 300 metres below the surface and continues to a depth of more than 1 kilometre. The existing mining operation employs a sub-level open stope method of underground mining. The underground operation includes crushing stations, vertical ventilation shafts and an automated rail network, used to produce and transport crushed ore to the surface, where conveyors move the ore to the processing plant.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

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Production:
Olympic Dam copper in 2022 production decreased as a result of the major smelter maintenance campaign (SCM21) completed in January 2022 which was delayed due to COVID-19 impacts on the availability of the workforce.

CommodityProductUnits2023202220212020201920182017
Copper Cathode kt  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required137166
Uranium Metal in concentrate t  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Gold Metal in doré oz  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics202220212020201920182017
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required9,094 kt7,499 kt8,008 kt
Tonnes milled  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required7,965 kt7,215 kt8,604 kt
Annual milling capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required10.3 Mt10.3 Mt10.3 Mt
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Reserves at June 30, 2022:
Cut-off criteria:
Mineral Resources: OC Sulphide - Variable between 0.10%Cu and 0.30%Cu; UG Sulphide - Variable between 0.60%Cu and 1.00%Cu.
Ore Reserves: UG Sulphide - Variable between 1.10%Cu and 1.70%Cu; Low-grade - 0.60%Cu

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven & Probable In-Situ (UG) 585 Mt Copper 1.82 %
Proven & Probable Low-grade sulphide 42 Mt Copper 0.81 %
Proven & Probable In-Situ (UG) 585 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 560 g/t
Proven & Probable Low-grade sulphide 42 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 270 g/t
Proven & Probable In-Situ (UG) 585 Mt Gold 0.67 g/t
Proven & Probable Low-grade sulphide 42 Mt Gold 0.33 g/t
Proven & Probable In-Situ (UG) 585 Mt Silver 5 g/t
Proven & Probable Low-grade sulphide 42 Mt Silver 2 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (OP) 9,590 Mt Copper 0.57 %
Total Resource In-Situ (UG) 1,730 Mt Copper 1.48 %
Total Resource In-Situ (OP) 9,590 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 190 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (UG) 1,730 Mt Uranium (U3O8) 440 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (OP) 9,590 Mt Gold 0.26 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (UG) 1,730 Mt Gold 0.58 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (OP) 9,590 Mt Silver 1 g/t
Total Resource In-Situ (UG) 1,730 Mt Silver 3 g/t

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits2016
Cash costs Copper USD 1.38 / lb  

Financials:

Units2022202120202019201820172016
Capital expenditures M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 669   267   197  
Revenue M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 1,255   1,287   1,432  
EBIT M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 39   224   148  
EBITDA M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required 267   284   385  
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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of November 28, 2022:
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Annual Report 2022
Form 20-F 2022
Press Release 2022
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Annual Report 2018
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Annual Report 2016
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Annual Report 2015
Corporate Presentation 2015
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