4. Game Changers – Olympic Dam and IOCG Deposit Models, Geometallurgy and Big Data

The discovery of Olympic Dam in Australia captured the imaginations of exploration geologists around the world – over 40 years later we are just beginning to appreciate the nature and extent of what a ‘game changer’ Olympic Dam was for the mining industry. In this episode we talk to one of the most knowledgeable geoscientists about the deposit, Kathy Ehrig (BHP) about its discovery, mineralogy, structural control and massive size. That is all captivating in itself, but the discovery also prom...