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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:10 pm
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The spin offs from this mine simply boggle the mind. BHP has got the go ahead to develope this mine over 5 stages with the first stage coming online from 2013 and should be completely opened up by around 2018/2019. While the life of this mine is expected to be around 100 years or more and the gross income for the state expected to be in the billions (plus a number of other mines in the state), the biggest thing about the mine is the size of the open pit itself which will be around 2/3 times as big as the entire Adelaide CBD!
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1984634/
| Trading Markets.com wrote: | MELBOURNE, Oct 30, 2008 BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) said Friday it plans to have the first of five planned stages of expansion at its Olympic Dam mine in South Australia in production by 2013.
BHP said it plans to issue its environmental impact statement for the project to the South Australian state government before the end of 2008 with approval to take between 12 and 18 months and likely in 2010.
The Melbourne-based miner said development of the planned open pit operation at Olympic Dam will take five years.
The first stage involves optimization of the underground mine which is expected to increase copper output to a rate of 200,000 tons a year and uranium output to 4,000 tons ahead of the major open pit expansion taking output to 730,000 tons of copper and 19,000 tons of uranium. |
Mine site details. Go to page 52 for the total size of the mine.
http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/previewDocument.ac?docID=GCA00898026BHP&f=pdf
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simont141
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:35 pm
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| Quote: | | BHP said it plans to issue its environmental impact statement for the project to the South Australian state government before the end of 2008 with approval to take between 12 and 18 months and likely in 2010. |
Until that is approved, nothing will get the go-ahead.
But given how much money is likely to be generated for the Government, it's hard to see anything stopping it from being approved.
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bevans
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:11 pm
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| Trading Markets.com wrote: | MELBOURNE, Oct 30, 2008 BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) said Friday it plans to have the first of five planned stages of expansion at its Olympic Dam mine in South Australia in production by 2013.
BHP said it plans to issue its environmental impact statement for the project to the South Australian state government before the end of 2008 with approval to take between 12 and 18 months and likely in 2010. |
The plan for the mine is said to include the construction of a rail connection from the mainline. It is thought this may be via the old Woomera branch.
SA is certainly coming of age. Well done and I hope the project gets up and running.
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:28 pm
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Must have been some three years ago now, one of my friends that works on the Woomera range said they had already completed the survey work (at least for the Woomera side) for this railway line. As said above, is going to follow the old line until the golf course, then cut across the road and head to Olympic Dam.
Having a look at the fine print, seems a reasonable amount of Cu concentrate will be shiped to China via .......... will have to see in which direction, a southern port or northern, cost will determine that. Also looks like the mine will go “autonomous” i.e. look mum...no hands (ie driverless trucks and loaders).
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:38 pm
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From what I have been told, the preffered shipping option for the stuff from Olympic Dam is to go is via Darwin because the only other port capable of handling such a large scale of mineral exports (Port Bonython) is too small for the sheer scale of this project plus the demand placed on it by the many smaller mining companies to the west and north of the port.
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:10 pm
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Heh heh! This should shut up that slinger Brumby- permanently! Backwater indeed!
The size of this mine reminds me of the old 'Monster Mine' at Burra and hopefully has the same economic benefit!
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:21 pm
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| 409 wrote: | | From what I have been told, the preffered shipping option for the stuff from Olympic Dam is to go is via Darwin because the only other port capable of handling such a large scale of mineral exports (Port Bonython) is too small for the sheer scale of this project plus the demand placed on it by the many smaller mining companies to the west and north of the port. |
Well that makes the Darwin line a lot more profitable, think this could be why the winning bidder for FreightLink hasn't been announced yet ?
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:18 am
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Not strictly to do with Roxby Downs but rather with mining in the north in general as of yesterday (2nd November 2008) one haul road underpass under the Stuart Highway is nearly finished and another just started south of Coober Pedy.
I assume these are to allow for a flow of ore to the railway to the west.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:08 am
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| kipioneer wrote: | Not strictly to do with Roxby Downs but rather with mining in the north in general as of yesterday (2nd November 2008) one haul road underpass under the Stuart Highway is nearly finished and another just started south of Coober Pedy.
I assume these are to allow for a flow of ore to the railway to the west. |
The one that would be near complete would be the mine road to Prominant Hill mine (due online soon)
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:38 pm
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The one that would be near complete would be the mine road to Prominant Hill mine (due online soon) |
Indeed - it seemed it was only necessary to clear away some material from the site - it was otherwise completed.
From the Stuart Highway it is not entirely clear what is prominent about the hill, but I guess I could be surprised if I went in closer.
The more northerly underpass was just in the very early stages on Monday - a detour had been built and the bitumen was in the process of being removed; the natural surface was yet to be broken.
It appeared the mining company was doing the earthworks for a rather large mining type truck was being used for the spoils.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:27 pm
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kipioneer, I was of the understanding that the Prominent Hill mine was some 80kms east of the Stuart Hwy, so you wouldn't be able to see it from the highway.
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:50 am
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Is the country around there similar to Woomera? If so, any hill would be prominent. According to Len Beadell he placed his peg in the ground where Woomera was to be built "on the highest point he could find in sight which was 6" above the surrounding countryside."
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