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Resource Copper (Cu), Gold (Au) concentrate
Company

Oz Minerals Limited

   
Status Operating
Mining operation

  • Malu open pit mine
  • Ankata underground mine
    • 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 October 2014
    • underground access via an extension to the main Ankata underground decline in early 2013
  • Mining of underground mining areas via a technique called sub-level open stoping
  • Grinding and flotation processing plant
  • Permanent village
  • Haulage road, power line and bore field
  • Fly-in, fly-out operation
  • Employs approximately 1,400 employees and contractors
Locationprominent_hill_blueApproximately 650 km north-northwest of Adelaide, about halfway between Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy; 130 km north west of Olympic Dam and 130 km south east of Coober Pedy.
Tenement information

The Prominent Hill operation comprise a number of tenements, including the mining lease (ML 6288), miscellaneous purpose licences (MPL 81, 82, 83,84, 91, 93, 94 96, 97, 101, 112-117 and 119-122) and extractive mineral leases (EML 6234, 6236-6242, 6278-6296, 6299)

Download map showing Prominent Hill tenements via the South Australian Resources Information Gateway (SARIG)

The deposit
  • Located within the Mount Woods Inlier, in the northeast of the Gawler Craton
  • Occurs within a large hematite altered sedimentary breccia complex that lies beneath a younger sedimentary overburden (cover sequence)
Resource estimates and production estimates

Company released resource estimates and production statistics for South Australia's major operating and approved mines are summarised in South Australia's major operating/approved mines: resources estimates and production statistics (PDF, updated regularly).

Approval process

The 2009 revised MARP (now deemed to be a PEPR) included environmental and social impacts associated with construction, operation and closure of Ankata (Prominent Hill underground mine).

Documents and reports

Program for environment protection and rehabilitation (PEPR)

Mining Compliance Report

For more information, contact:

For a copy of reports in an alternative format contact the Resource Information Centre
Customer Services
Phone: +61 8 8463 3000
Email: resources.customerservices@sa.gov.au
For inquiries relating to this mining operation please contact the Mining Regulation Branch
Phone: + 61 8 8463 3484
Email: DSD:MiningRegRehab@sa.gov.au