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 (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).

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.