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Olympic Dam Expansion Project - Australia
Olympic Dam Expansion Project - Australia
SNC-Lavalin in joint venture was contracted by BHP Billiton to provide prefeasibility study services for the ore processing facilities of this large expansion project.
The prefeasibility study investigated the expansion of the Olympic Dam facility to increase annual production to the following targets:
- 40 Mtpa mined ore
- 500,000 tpa copper
- 15,000 tpa uranium oxide
- 500,000 oz gold per year, and
- 2,900,000 oz silver per year
The scope of the contract included provision of engineering services to provide the following main components:
- Establishment of a common platform of engineering standards and systems to be used across the project.
- A single go forward design of the ore processing facilities consisting of the following five main areas: concentrator, hydrometallurgical facility, smelter, refinery and ore processing infrastructure and utilities.
- Consolidated OPEX and CAPEX estimates for the PFS.
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Applicable inputs to the PFS Report for the ore processing facilities.