Prominent Hill Operation produces one of the highest grades of copper concentrate in the world. Prominent Hill was first developed as an open-pit mine, however, mining activities are currently principally underground.
OZ Minerals has reported a near 23% increase to the Prominent Hill underground ore reserve, which now totals 59-million tonnes at 1.4% copper equivalent, extending the mine life by two years to...
The Wira hoisting shaft system will extend the Prominent Hill mine life from nine to 15 years, until 2036, at 6.5-million tonnes a year.
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 million tonnes per annum from 2022 via a trucking operation.
Prominent Hill is an iron oxide/copper/gold deposit located in the Gawler Craton, which covers about 600,000km 2 of South Australia. As well as Prominent Hill, the prolific site hosts Olympic Dam and Carrapateena, and a number of other smaller and subeconomic copper-gold deposits.
The OZ Minerals Board has approved the construction of a hoisting shaft at the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine, which will extend the mine life to 2036 at 6 million tpy.
Located 650 kilometers north-west of Adelaide, South Australia, Prominent Hill is part of our Minerals Australia operation. It's made up of underground and surface operations, and is located on the traditional lands of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people.
BHP acquired the Carrapateena and Prominent Hill mines last year as part of the $9.6 billion takeover of OZ Minerals. The two mines are central to its plans to grow copper production in South...
The Prominent Hill gold and copper mine is 650km north-west of the South Australian capital Adelaide, 130km north-west of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam and 130km south-east of the town of Coober Pedy in the Gawler Craton of South Australia.
The company on Wednesday approved the construction of a hoisting shaft at the Prominent Hill mine, which would extend the mine life from the current 9 years, to 15 years, to 2036, at...