Olympic Dam Australia Slag Flotation Plant

BHP engaged Delta Group to design and deliver a two stage industrial demolition works programme for its Slag Floatation Plant located at their Olympic Dam mine in Roxby Downs, …

Olympic Dam SCM21 project is a major project involving maintenance of the copper smelter at Olympic Dam. The project is essentially a major deconstruct and reconstruct endeavour scheduled around statutory requirements (annual boiler and service) and furnace lining and repair/replacement – focusing on rebuild of the electric slag furnace, the ...

flotation tailings are also acid leached and the metal-rich solutions sent to a hydrometallurgical plant for processing to extract the majority of U (as 'U 3O 8') plus a small amount of Cu. Although there is more complexity to the total Olympic Dam process flow …

Name of the Site BHP Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd Unique identifier provided by the Copper Mark P0014 Address Olympic Dam SA 5725 Country of Operation Australia Principle covered products produced on site. (e.g., concentrate, anodes, cathodes, sulphuric acid, slag, etc.) Copper product: copper cathodes Metals produced on site.

After considering geophysical data a drill hole was sunk near a small stock water dam known as Olympic Dam. It struck copper, and later drilling confirmed a resource of more than 2000 …

Characterising Olympic Dam. Since the late 1980s, CSIRO's Diffraction, Mineralogy and Geochemistry unit has worked on, among many other projects, the giant Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia, an iron …

Located 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, Olympic Dam is a part of our Minerals Australia operation. It's made up of underground and surface operations and operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal.

The South Australian Government has announced the commencement of an application and assessment process for BHP's planned smelter and refinery expansion at Olympic Dam via a notification in the South Australian Government Gazette.. The notification is a step forward for BHP's copper growth plans in South Australia and follows an update in the company's FY24 …

Plant performance since commissioning has justified the approach for metallurgical test work and equipment choices for the flotation circuit. INTRODUCTION OZ Minerals Limited's Prominent Hill copper-gold mine is located 650 km NW of Adelaide, 130 km NW of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam operation and 130 km SE of the town of Coober

A study of refinery slimes from one of the world's largest copper mining-processing-smelting-refining operations is thus opportune. The Olympic Dam mine in outback South Australia exploits a ...

Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2009 27 2 Existing OpEratiOn 2 2.1 intrOductiOn This chapter provides an overview of the existing mining and metallurgical operation at Olympic Dam, South Australia, including the associated infrastructure, current environmental management practices and waste management procedures.

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August 22, 2018 - World's mining company BHP revealed Tuesday that ore processing at its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine in South Australia is being affected by an ongoing technical issue. Copper production at Olympic Dam is set to reach around 230,000 tonnes by 2021, but there is potential for up to 450,000 tonnes per year.

The Olympic Dam is a huge mining centre located in South Australia, 560km north-west of Adelaide. Home to a major oxide copper gold deposit producing copper, uranium, gold and silver, the site hosts an underground mine and an integrated metallurgical processing plant. ... additions to the flotation sections, two counter-current decantation ...

"In Australia, Olympic Dam delivered its best quarterly production in the past five years and we are on track for first (iron ore) production from South Flank (in the Pilbara) in the middle of ...

The Olympic Dam mine in outback South Australia exploits a breccia-hosted sulphide ore deposit for Cu, U, Au and Ag (Ehrig et al., 2012, Ehrig et al., 2017). The on-site metallurgical plant (BHP Billiton, 2009) produces 99.9999 % pure copper cathodes, ... (flash furnace followed by electric slag reduction furnace). Blister copper is delivered ...

on the interaction of a large number of properties of the ore feed. At the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, plant performance variables of interest include the recovery of Cu and U 3O8, acid consumption, net recovery, drop weight index and bond mill work index. There are an insufficient number of pilot plant trials (841) to consider direct 3-D

Olympic Dam (30°26'44.30" S, 136°52' 06.31"E), a copper-uranium mine located approximately 570 km north of Adelaide, South Australia, contains the world's largest uranium resource, the fourth-largest copper resource, and sizeable quantities of gold and silver.Minerals at the site include medium-grained chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite, fine-grained disseminated …

Process water circuits at Olympic Dam. This circuit is a major consumer of water, with water "lost" from the circuit with the flotation tailings thickener slurry. The lost water enters the acidic liquor …

Ore mined underground is hauled by an automated train system to crushing, storage and ore hoisting facilities. The processing plant consists of two grinding circuits in which high-quality …

The Slag Floatation Plant included the addition of MCC starters and Variable Speed Drives, two banks of flotation cells, associated tanks and pumping infrastructure as well as field instrumentation, lighting and small power, control …

In addition, BHP has received approval from the Australian and South Australian governments in 2015 to build a site-based heap-leaching demonstration plant, as part of the company's efforts to ...

The deposit Olympic Dam is on the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton and is one of the world's most significant deposits of copper, gold, silver and uranium.

Test work by RMS at the Olympic Dam metallurgical pilot plant has con- firmed that uranium can be dissolved from the copper concentrates, and an acid treatment of the flotation concentrates is now part of the processing route for the ore. 382 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors wish to thank Roxby Management Services Pty Ltd for finan- cial support (R ...

Metallurgist Production Support (HydroSX) | Olympic Dam | 8/6 050FDC - About the Role This is a fantastic opportunity as a Metallurgist to develop your career at Olympic Dam and join the Processing ... Maintenance and Technical team members to deliver excellence in plant operation. The Processing and Refinery Team offers access to a wide range ...

1 Improved Copper Flash Smelting at Olympic Dam Matthew White 1, 2Ross Haywood 1, Wesley Taylor, Shu Chen, John Ranasinghe 2, Robert West 2 1. Hatch Pty Ltd, Global Practice Director,

Olympic Dam. The facilities are now operated by WMC (Olympic Dam Corporation) Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of WMC Limited. The regulatory framework and approvals process The operations at Olympic Dam are regulated by the Rohr Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982, which was ratified by the South Australian Parliament in June 1982 and ...

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BHP Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd ABN 99 007 835 761 Unique identifier provided by the Copper Mark P0014 Address Olympic Dam SA 5725 Country of Operation Australia Products produced on site (e.g., concentrate, anodes, cathodes, sulphuric acid, slag, etc.) Copper product: copper cathodes Metals produced on site

Iberdrola's renewable energy supply will come via the Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park in South Australia, set to be Australia's largest solar-wind hybrid plant once it commences operation ...