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.
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