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Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Famous complex and very large Pb-Zn-(Ag) deposit that has undergone several metamorphic stages. Its richness was the basis of Australia's wealth and prosperity. 300 million metric tons of ore.
There is a vast amount of literature on the deposit and its genesis.

It should be noted that many of the mines now listed as being at Broken Hill (correctly so) are in fact located in the surrounding districts of Broken Hill and may be many kilometres distant from the town of Broken Hill itself. It is only the mines located both in and within a close proximity of the township of Broken Hill that gave rise to Broken Hill's fabulous mineral heritage and which are the subject of texts such as - The Minerals of Broken Hill, Australasian Mining and Smelting Limited, Melbourne, Worner, H. K. and Mitchell, R. W., eds. (1982).



References:
- Ramdohr, P. (1950): Die Lagerstätte von Broken Hill in New South Wales. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2(4), 291-333 (in German).
- B. E. Hobbs, D. M. Ransom, R. H. Vernon and P. F. Williams (1968): The Broken Hill ore body, Australia. Mineralium Deposita 3, 293-316.
- Mason, B. (1976): Famous mineral localities: Broken Hill, Australia. Mineralogical Record: 7: 25-33.
- van Moort, J. C. & Swensson, C. G. (1981): The oxidised zone of the Broken Hill Lode, N.S.W., in: Amstutz, G. C., El-Goresy, A., Frenzel, G., Kluth, C., Moh, G., Wauschkuhn, A. and Zimmermann, R. A. (editors), Ore Genesis, Springer, Berlin, 251-268.
- Worner, H. K. and Mitchell, R. W., eds. (1982): The minerals of Broken Hill. Australasian Mining and Smelting Limited, Melbourne.
- Stevenson, R.K. and Martin, R.F. (1986) Implications of the presence of amazonite in the Broken Hill and Geco metamorphosed sulfide deposits. Canadian Mineralogist: 24: 729-745.
- Econ. Geol. (1987) 82: 805-825.
- Wilson, W. E. (1988): Broken Hill, New South Wales: a brief review. Mineralogical Record 19, 417-424.
- Lieber, W. (1989): Broken Hill- Die berühmteste Blei-Zink-Lagerstätte Australiens. Lapis 14 (5), 11-29; 50. (in German)
- Elliott, P. (1997): Minerals of the slags from Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 3 (1), 77-83.
- Nutman, A.P. and Ehlers, K. (1998) Evidence for multiple Paleoproterozoic thermal events and magmatism adjacent to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia. Precambrian Research: 13: 209-240.
- Birch, W. D., ed. (1999): The minerals of Broken Hill. Broken Hill City Council and Museum of Victoria, Broken Hill, Australia, 289 pp.
- Wilson, C.J.L. and Powell, R. (2001) Strain localization and high-grade metamorphism at Broken Hill, Australia: a view from the Southern Cross area. Tectophysics: 335: 193-210.
- Frost, B.R., Swapp, S.M., and Gregory, R.W. (2005) Prolonged existence of sulfide melt in the Broken Hill orebody, New South Wales, Australia. Canadian Mineralogist: 43: 479-493.
- Iain M. Groves, David I. Groves, Frank P. Bierlein, Jared Broome & John Penhall (2008): Recognition of the Hydrothermal Feeder to the Structurally Inverted, Giant Broken Hill Deposit, New South Wales, Australia. Economic Geology, 103, 1389-1394.
- Spry, P.G., Plimer, I.R., and Teale, G.S. (2008): Did the giant Broken Hill (Australia) Zn-Pb-Ag deposit melt ? Ore Geology Reviews 34, 223-241.

- http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/mineralogy/bhilldoc.html
- http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/MetallicMinerals/MineralDepositProfiles/PROFILES/S01.htm
- http://www.crocoite.com/opencut/bhsecmin.htm





Map Reference: 31°58'S , 141°28'E

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


Mineral List:
Acanthite
Adamite
var: Cuprian Adamite
Agardite-(Ce) ?
Agardite-(Y)
Alabandite
Albite
var: Andesine
var: Oligoclase
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Allanite-(Ce)
Allargentum
Almandine
Anatase
Andalusite
Andradite
Anglesite
Ankerite
Annite
Anorthite
var: Barium-Anorthite (of Nockolds and Zies)
var: Bytownite
var: Labradorite
Antimony
Antlerite
'Apatite'
Apatite-(CaF)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
Apophyllite-(KF)
Aragonite
Argentopyrite
Armenite
Arseniosiderite
Arsenopyrite
Arsentsumebite
Atacamite
Augite
Aurichalcite
Axinite-(Fe)
Axinite-(Mn)
Azurite
Bannisterite
Baryte
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Bayldonite
Bechererite
Bementite
Beraunite
Bernalite (TL)
Berthierite
Beudantite
Bindheimite
Biotite
Birchite (TL)
Birnessite
Bismuth
Boleite
Bornite
Boulangerite
var: Falkmanite
Bournonite
Breithauptite
Brochantite
Brokenhillite
Bromargyrite
Bustamite
Calcite
var: Manganoan Calcite
Caledonite
Capgaronnite
Carminite
Cassiterite
Celsian
Cerussite
Chabazite-Ca
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcophanite
Chalcopyrite
Chalcosiderite
Chamosite
Chenevixite
Chlorargyrite
var: Bromian Chlorargyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chloritoid
Chrysocolla
Churchite-(Y)
Cinnabar
Clinochlore
Clinoclase
Clinoferrosilite
Clinozoisite
Cobaltite
Coccinite
Conichalcite
Connellite
Copper
Corkite
Cornwallite
Coronadite
Corundum
Costibite (TL)
Covellite
Crandallite
Cryptomelane
Cubanite
Cumengeite
Cuprite
Cuprotungstite
Cyanotrichite
Cyrilovite
Dolomite
var: Zincian Dolomite
Dufrénite
Duftite
Dyscrasite
Epidote
Erythrite
Famatinite
Faustite
Fayalite
'Feldspar Group'
Ferro-Actinolite
Ferrohornblende
Ferropargasite
Ferrotschermakite
Fluorite
Fornacite
Freibergite
Friedelite
Gahnite
Galena
Ganophyllite
'Garnet Group'
Gartrellite
Gedrite
Goethite
Gold
Gordaite
Goslarite
var: Mangangoslarite
Graphite
Greenalite
Greenockite
Grossular
Grunerite
Gudmundite
Gunningite
Gypsum
Halite
Halloysite
Halotrichite
'Halotrichite-Pickeringite Series'
Hausmannite
Hawleyite
Hedenbergite
var: Manganoan Hedenbergite
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hercynite
Hibschite
Hidalgoite
Hinsdalite
Hisingerite
Hoganite (TL)
Hollandite
Hopeite
'Hornblende'
Hyalophane
Hydrocerussite
Hydrozincite
Illite
Ilmenite
Ilvaite
IMA2008-047 (TL)
IMA2008-048 (TL)
IMA2009-048 (TL)
Inesite
Iodargyrite
Jacobsite
Jalpaite
Jamesonite
Jarosite
Johannsenite
Kanoite
Kaolinite
Kermesite
Kidwellite
Kintoreite (TL)
Kipushite
Kleemanite
Kolitschite (TL)
Köttigite
Kröhnkite ?
Ktenasite
Kutnohorite
Kyanite
Lanarkite
Langite
Laumontite
Lead
Leadhillite
Legrandite
Leucophosphite
Libethenite
var: Zincian Libethenite
Limonite
Linarite
Linnaeite
Livingstonite
Löllingite
Mackinawite
Magnetite
Malachite
Mallardite
Manganocummingtonite
Manganogrunerite
Marcasite
Margarite
Marshite (TL)
Mawbyite (TL)
Mckinstryite
Melanterite
Meneghinite
Miargyrite
Microcline
var: Amazonite
Miersite (TL)
Millerite
Mimetite
Minium
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Mottramite
Muscovite
Nadorite
Namuwite
Nantokite
Natrodufrénite
Natrojarosite
Neotocite
Nickeline
Olivenite
var: Zincian Olivenite
Opal
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Orthoclase
Otavite
Paceite (TL)
Palygorskite
Paracostibite
Paradocrasite (TL)
Paragonite
Paratacamite
Pentlandite
Perroudite
'Perthite'
Pharmacosiderite
Philipsbornite
Phosgenite
Phosphohedyphane
Pickeringite
Platinum
Plimerite (TL)
Plumbogummite
Plumbojarosite
Polybasite
Posnjakite
Prehnite
Proustite
Pseudomalachite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Pyrophanite
Pyrosmalite-(Fe)
Pyrosmalite-(Mn)
Pyrostilpnite
Pyroxmangite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Blue Quartz
Ramsdellite
Raspite (TL)
'Rhabdophane'
Rhabdophane-(Ce)
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Rockbridgeite
Romanèchite
Rosasite
Roscoelite
Rutile
Safflorite
Sampleite
Sanidine
Scheelite
Scholzite
Schorl
Schulenbergite
Scorodite
Segnitite (TL)
Serpierite
Shannonite
Siderite
Sillimanite
Silver
var: Antimonial Silver
Skutterudite
Smithsonite
Spangolite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Stannite
Staurolite
Stephanite
Stetefeldtite
Stibarsen
Stibiconite
Stibnite
'Stilbite'
Stilpnomelane
Stolzite
Strengite
Stromeyerite
Sturtite
Sulphur
Sylvite
Synchysite-(Ce)
Tarbuttite
'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series'
Tenorite
Tephroite
Tetrahedrite
Titanite
Tocornalite ?
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Tremolite
Tridymite
Troilite
Tsumcorite
Tsumebite
Turquoise
Ullmannite
Uraninite
Valleriite
Vanadinite
Variscite
Vauquelinite
Vesuvianite
'Wad'
Willyamite (TL)
Wolframite
Wollastonite
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Zaratite
Zdenĕkite
Zincolibethenite
Zincrosasite
Zircon
Zoisite
Zwieselite


799 entries listed. 323 valid minerals. 18 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region:
Australia
 
  • New South Wales
    • Yancowinna Co.
      • Broken Hill
        • Brewery Creek area

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