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Major Mines & Projects | Prominent Hill Operation
Prominent Hill Operation Underground Operation is located 111 km SE from Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia. ... after depleting the remaining open-pit gold, copper and marginal stockpiles, the processing plant will be fed from underground sources only. Commodity Product Units 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016; Copper: …
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This will see the Prominent Hill processing plant continue to operate at the current capacity until mid-2023 by processing stockpile and underground ore, prior to running full time at a milling capacity of circa 3.5-4.0 Mtpa to 2028.Projected capital costs to de-rate the plant to the lower 4.0 Mtpa capacity are approximately $5 million.
Prominent Hill Expansion Study Update
This document should be read in conjunction with the Prominent Hill Expansion Update, the Prominent Hill Exploration Results and the Prominent Hill Interim Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Statement and Explana tory Notes released today. All figures are expressed in Australian dollars unless stated otherwise.
Prominent Hill Paste Backfill Project
GR Engineering was awarded a design and construct contract by OZ Minerals to supply a continuous production paste backfill plant for the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine. The paste plant is designed to cyclone a proportion of the copper-gold plant tailings to provide a suitable paste plant feed and then filter and repulp the tailings in a ...
Flotation Process Control Optimisation at Prominent Hill
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill copper-gold concentrator is located 130 kilometres south east of the town of Coober Pedy in the Gawler Craton of South Australia. The concentrator was built in 2008 and commenced commercial production in early 2009. The Prominent Hill concentrator is comprised of a conventional grinding and flotation processing plant with …
Prominent Hill Gold and Copper Mine
Prominent Hill's Malu open-pit mine has a conventional grinding and flotation processing plant with an 8mtpa of capacity. A permanent village accommodates a …
Optimisation of the Prominent Hill Flotation Circuit
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill copper-gold concentrator is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in the Gawler Craton of South Australia. The concentrator was built in 2008 and commenced commercial production in early 2009. The Prominent Hill concentrator is comprised of a conventional grinding and flotation processing plant with a design …
Outotec paste backfill system for Prominent Hill
The new paste backfill plant will be based on Outotec's process design, which allows flexibility to use continuously produced fresh tailings or store filter cake to meet the future backfill needs of the underground mining operation.
Prominent Hill mine life extended to 2029 thanks to …
The Prominent Hill processing plant has been operating since February 2009 and comprises a conventional crushing, grinding and flotation circuit to recover copper, gold and silver to produce a high quality concentrate. The plant can process approximately 10 Mt/y subject to the ore blend.
Designing the Optimal Flotation Circuit
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill copper-gold concentrator in South Australia was built in 2008 with commercial production commencing in early 2009. In addition to recovery of valuable minerals, the flow sheet for this iron oxide-hosted copper-gold deposit has to address the issue of producing a good quality saleable copper concentrate by high selectivity against …
Carrapateena Copper-Gold Project, Port Augusta, Australia
Carrapateena falls within the Olympic Dam copper-gold belt on the east of the Gawler Craton, which hosts prominent mines such as Prominent Hill, Olympic Dam, and the Moonta-Wallaroo historic mining district.
Prominent Hill safety boost following unintentional explosions
One of the state's largest underground mines and its principal underground mining contractor has agreed to spend more than $780,000 on safety improvements following two unplanned explosions in the Far North of South Australia in 2020.
Prominent Hill | Energy & Mining
high-grade resource. 800 metres away from the Malu open pit. mine life to 2022. Malu underground. third mining front to be developed at Prominent Hill. first production early …
Prominent Hill open pit closes
In addition to the open pit, Prominent Hill - which has about 900 fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) employees - is mining underground from the Ankata and Malu mine areas and performs conventional crushing, grinding and flotation at its processing plant.
Advancements in Removing Fluorine from Copper Concentrate
The Prominent Hill mine in South Australia contains chalcocite, bornite, and chalcopyrite as the main copper-bearing minerals . The fluorine level in the copper concentrate is highly variable and can reach up to 0.57% F ion. ... Copper flotation plants that process fluorine-containing copper ores often adjust their flowsheets based on the …
2020 OZ Minerals Prominent Hill Expansion Study …
Prominent Hill is technically and economically feasible with capital investment consistent across the interim and strengthened cases. The robustness of the investment into the shaft was tested by ... • the existing processing plant to accommodate the new throughput rates without major
Development of recovery domains: Examples from the Prominent Hill …
Prominent Hill is an iron oxide–copper–gold deposit in South Australia owned and mined by OZ minerals. Ore is obtained from open pit and underground mines and is treated via a grinding and flotation processing plant …
OZ Minerals Projects
Prominent Hill Production Targets Cautionary Statement. Production Targets for the Prominent Hill Underground only are based on: Proved Ore Reserve 44% ... of detailed studies based on the actual performance of our existing mines and processing plant. These studies include the assessment of mining, metallurgical, ore processing, …
OZ Minerals plans vertical hoisting & battery electric underground
Prominent Hill is a major copper/gold/silver mine in South Australia. ... Surface overland conveyor to existing processing plant; The interim case shows that converting to a vertical shaft would lower the operational risks of mining at depth and be NPV and cashflow positive over the current truck haulage mining operation. The …
$600m Prominent Hill mine expansion in SA approved for development …
Prominent Hill is located about 650 kilometres north-northwest of Adelaide and it comprises of underground mines Ankata and Malu as well as a conventional crushing, grinding and flotation processing plant, and the future Wira shaft.
Designing the Optimal Flotation Circuit – The Prominent …
The process plant feed will be mined from the copper-gold breccia zones with mineralisation types of chalcocite-bornite, chalcopyrite-bornite, chalcopyrite-pyrite and from the EGO zone.
Prominent Hill Expansion Study Update
Prominent Hill mine began operation in 2009 as an open pit and is now an underground mine producing 4.5 million tonnes per annum moving to between 4.5 and 5 …
Flotation process control optimisation at Prominent Hill
The Prominent Hill concentrator is comprised of a conventional grinding and flotation processing plant with a 9.6 Mtpa ore throughput capacity. The flotation circuit includes six rougher cells, an IseMill for regrinding the rougher concentrate and a Jameson cell heading up the three stage conventional cell cleaner circuit.
Copper miner OZ Minerals back in profit and looks at rail …
OZ said an earlier option of moving the processing plant from Prominent Hill - which will exhaust its ore in coming years - to Carrapateena was likely to be more expensive than building the rail line.
2020 OZ Minerals Prominent Hill Expansion Study …
The purpose of the Prominent Hill Expansion Study is to maximise value from Prominent Hill's approximate 130 million tonnes underground copper-gold-silver …
OZ Minerals extends mine-life at Prominent Hill to 2029
OZ Minerals has extended the mine-life at the South Australia Prominent Hill iron-oxide copper-gold mine until 2029.. The extension was made possible by achieving an 18% growth in underground ore reserve to 39Mt at 1.7% copper equivalent.
$600m Prominent Hill mine expansion in SA approved for …
OZ Minerals has announced that it will be pushing ahead with the expansion of the Prominent Hill copper and gold mine in South Australia with a $600 million …
OZ extends Prominent Hill mine life to 2029
Once OZ closes the open pit at Prominent Hill in first quarter 2018, the company will maintain stockpile processing at full capacity until mid-2023, helping it to generate significant cash flows ...
Flotation Process Control Optimisation at Prominent Hill
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill copper-gold concentrator is located 130 kilometres south east of the town of Coober Pedy in the Gawler Craton of South Australia. The concentrator was built in 2008 and commenced commercial production in early 2009. The Prominent Hill concentrator is comprised of a conventional grinding and flotation …
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill operations get 15-year life …
OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill Mine will help underpin the company's production for decades to come after it approved a $600m extension for the ageing copper mine as its profits surged on the ...
Copper and Gold Mine | Thiess Mining Projects | Thiess
At Prominent Hill, Thiess significantly expanded its operations, team and fleet to ramp up production to 32 million BCM per annum in just six months.
Oak Dam | BHP
BHP is Australia's largest copper producer through its operations at Olympic Dam. The recent acquisition of OZ Minerals adds the Prominent Hill and Carrapateena assets to its portfolio, providing an opportunity to create an integrated copper province in South Australia - driving further efficiencies in resource exploration and production.
Prominent Hill Concentrator
The Prominent Hill copper-gold concentrator of OZ Minerals Limited in South Australia was built in 2008 and commenced commercial production in early 2009._x000D_ It has a design ore throughput of eight million tonnes per year (Mt/yr). While the flow sheet has many items in common with other plants treating ores from iron oxide-hosted copper-gold deposits, …
BHP's OZ Minerals bid is really about Olympic Dam
BHP has tried just about everything to make Olympic Dam work. An $8.3 billion bid for OZ Minerals suggests it will leave no stone unturned in the next attempt.