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A small mining town in South Australia, perfect for relaxation and leisure, Olympic Dam has the advantage of not being invaded by tourists until recent times. Quiet and peaceful, Olympic Dam makes a great place for a weekend of relaxation, spent listening to music, enjoying food and maybe learning a few things about life in a small town. Take a few days just for you, enjoy the silence offered by the lack of the noisy and annoying crowds. If you do not want to spend all your time in Olympic Dam sleeping, try a few typical attractions of the area.

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Top attractions within Olympic Dam

The Mining Centre is an extremely large deposit of iron oxide gold cooper and is the main place where the locals work. The mining center from Olympic Dam produces cooper, uranium, gold and silver. Although uranium only produces a small part of the profit, this is the largest known in the whole world uranium deposit. If you are in Olympic Dam, do not miss it because this is something you definitely cannot see in any other place.

The Mining Museum is an exhibition of the materials extracted from the mine in Olympic Dam and of the tools used from the beginning until now to extract cooper, gold, silver and uranium. You can also admire jewelry made from silver and gold and there is also a selling point if you want to buy jewelry produced in Olympic Dam, right from the source.

The Olympic Dam Monument is a monument made of stone with a black marble sheet engraved with information about the mining center. The monument was rose on the exact place where the site had the first drill on June 13, 1975, made by E. G. Whenan, driller at Western Mining Corporation's Exploration Division.