Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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Main shafts: Delprat shaft (separate locality) and Stewart shaft.

References

- Ramdohr, P. (1950): Die Lagerstätte von Broken Hill in New South Wales. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2(4), 291-333 (in German).
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1088, 1090.
- Rocks & Minerals (1996): 71: 160-161.
- Minerals of Broken Hill, W.D. Birch et al, 1982.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Amphibole Group var: Uralite Anatase Anglesite Arsenopyrite Azurite Bayldonite Bernalite Bournonite Calcite Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chlorargyrite var: Bromian Chlorargyrite

Copper Coronadite Covellite Cubanite Cuprite Diopside Dyscrasite Fluorite Galena Goethite Gold Gudmundite Hemimorphite Jalpaite

Kaolinite Limonite Linarite Malachite Marshite (TL) Meneghinite Miersite Mimetite Mottramite 'Psilomelane' Pyrite Pyromorphite Pyrrhotite Quartz

Raspite (TL) Rhodonite Silver Smithsonite Spessartine Sphalerite Stolzite Stromeyerite 'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series' Ullmannite 'Wad' Willyamite

56 entries listed. 48 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Australia New South Wales Yancowinna Co. Broken Hill Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine) Delprat shaft