South Australia, 560 km north of Adelaide and 50 km north of Woomera.
Situated in arid pastoral land.
The operations were named after a livestock watering dam built during the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956 on the Roxby Downs pastoral lease. The purpose-built town of Roxby Downs, established 16 km south of the operations to service them, retains the name of the pastoral lease on which it was established.
The mine is approximately 500 m underground beneath unmineralised sedimentary rocks.
Only the town is known as Roxby Downs. The mine is known as Olympic Dam.
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