Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Large opencut mine known for a wealth of secondary mineral species.

NOTE: Material from this opencut (and also the Block 14 Opencut) which was fairly 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. and Van Der Heyden, A. (1988): Minerals from the Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mineralogical Record: 19: 425-436.
- Elliott, P. (1996): Mimetite and Wulfenite from the Kintore Opencut Broken Hill New South Wales. Mineralogical Record, 27, 375-380.
- Birch, W.D. and van der Heyden, A. (1997): Minerals of the Kintore and Block 14 open cuts at Broken Hill NSW. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 3: 23-71.
- Birch, W.D. (1999). Minerals of Broken Hill. Publisher Broken Hill Council (Melbourne).
- Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Bordet, P. & Mills, S. J. (2008) A new crystal-chemical variation of the alunite-type structure in monoclinic PbZn0.5Fe3(AsO4)2(OH)6, Canadian Mineralogist, 46(5), 1355–1364.
- Mills, S. J., Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Miyawaki, R., Matsubara, S., Bordet, P., Birch, W. D. & Raudsepp, M. (2008) Kolitschite, Pb[Zn0.5,0.5]Fe3(AsO4)2(OH)6, a new mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(2), 63–67.