Prominent Hill mine
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The Prominent Hill Mine is a major copper, silver, and gold mine in north west South Australia, 130 km south-east of Coober Pedy, which was developed by Oxiana Limited, later to become Oz Minerals, an
Prominent Hill open pit from September 2008 to September 2010
Chalcopyrite in hematised breccia from Prominent Hill, with 5-cent coin to scale
Olympic Dam mine
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The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, 550 km NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of urani
Prominent Hill mine
…Resources of the deposit are 152.8 Mt at 1.18% Cu, 0.48 g/t Au and 2.92 g/t Ag plus 38.3 Mt at 1.17 g/t Au of non-sulfide ore. In contrast to the Olympic Dam deposit, an iron oxide copper gold deposit of similar age about 200 km to the southeast of Prominent Hill, uranium values do not exceed 150 ppm and…
Clarke and Robinson shafts (centre)
The Point Lowly cuttlefish aggregation may be impacted by Olympic Dam desalination plant brine.
Kevin Buzzacott
Monument at the discovery hole of Olympic Dam, RD1