Large opencut with (at least in 2000) outcrops of rhodonite in galena.
The British mine (Blocks 15 & 16), and the adjacent Proprietry mine to the northeast, were mostly now swallowed in the Block 14 Open Pit (along with the old Block 14 workings, which were part of the Proprietry mine workings).
NOTE: Material from this opencut (and the Kintore 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).
Mineral List
83 entries listed. 79 valid minerals. 6 type localities (valid minerals).
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References
- 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.
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