EXPLORATION

Oak Dam set to be drilled

RESOURCE definition drilling of BHP’s high-grade copper-gold Oak Dam West discovery 65km south of Olympic Dam is planned for the middle of this year.

David Upton
Oak Dam West is 65km of BHP's Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine.

Oak Dam West is 65km of BHP's Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine.

BHP manager of Australian exploration Jamie King told one of the final sessions of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada that the 2018 copper-gold discovery had been transferred out of the...

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