Radionuclide-bearing minerals in Olympic Dam copper concentrates

Published: Dec 1, 2019
Abstract
Olympic Dam hosts >80 million tonnes of copper, as copper‑iron sulphides, within hematite-dominant gangue. Processing of the relatively fine-grained copper ore is complicated by the presence of by-product uranium and its radiogenic isotopes, in particular 226Ra, 210Pb and 210Po, which partially recover to the final copper sulphide concentrates. Although the majority (~85%) of the U-bearing minerals (uraninite, coffinite, brannerite, thorianite,...
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Title
Radionuclide-bearing minerals in Olympic Dam copper concentrates
Published Date
Dec 1, 2019
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