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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.





Mineral List:
Adamite
Agardite-(Y)
Anglesite
Aragonite
Arsentsumebite
Atacamite
Aurichalcite
Azurite
Baryte
Bayldonite
Beraunite
Brochantite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcophanite
Chalcopyrite
Chlorargyrite
Chrysocolla
Connellite
Copper
Corkite
Coronadite
Cuprite
Dufrénite
Dyscrasite
Galena
Goethite
Gordaite
Gypsum
Hemimorphite
Hinsdalite
Hydrozincite
Ilmenite
IMA2008-047 (TL)
IMA2008-048 (TL)
IMA2009-048 (TL)
Iodargyrite
Kintoreite (TL)
Kipushite
Kröhnkite ?
Ktenasite
Libethenite
var: Zincian Libethenite
Limonite
Linarite
Malachite
Mimetite
Natrojarosite
Olivenite
var: Zincian Olivenite
Otavite
Plimerite (TL)
Pseudomalachite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rhodonite
Rockbridgeite
Rosasite
Sampleite
Scholzite
Scorodite
Serpierite
Silver
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Strengite
Tarbuttite
'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series'
Torbernite
Tsumebite
Valleriite
Zincolibethenite


75 entries listed. 71 valid minerals. 5 type localities (valid minerals).

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