Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Large opencut with (at least in 2000) outcrops of rhodonite in galena.

NOTE: Material from this opencut which was very rich in secondary minerals could be collected in the 1990s on designated dumps on the mine site of the Pinnacles mine (http://www.mindat.org/loc-5752.html).

Refs.:
- Birch, W. D. (1990): Minerals from the Kintore and Block 14 opencuts, Broken Hill, N.S.W.; review of recent discoveries, including tsumebite, kipushite and otavite. Austral. Mineral. 5, 125-141.
- Birch, W. D. and van der Heyden, A. (1997): Minerals of the Kintore and Block 14 open cuts at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 3, 23-71.