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Broken Hill
New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Main commodities: Zn Pb Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2015.     Record last updated: 11/12/2016
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Broken Hill

    Selected References
Barnes, R.G.,  1987 - Multi-stage mobilization and remobilization of mineralization in the Broken Hill Block, Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.2, pp. 247-267.
Burton G  1998 - Stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation in the Broken Hill and Euriowie Blocks: in Gibson G M 1998 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative: Abstracts of papers presented at fourth annual meeting in Broken Hill, October 19-21, 1998 AGSO, Canberra   Record: 1998/25 pp 1-4
Cartwright I  1999 - Regional Oxygen isotope zonation at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: large-scale fluid flow and implications for Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization: in    Econ. Geol.   v94 pp 357-374
Conor. C.H.H. and Preiss, W.V.,  2008 - Understanding the 1720-1640Ma Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup, Curnamona Province, Southeastern Australia: Implications for tectonics, basin evolution and ore genesis: in    Precambrian Research   v.166, pp. 297-317.
Donaghy A, Gibson G, Nutman A, Hall M, Maidment D  1999 - Rethinking the Palaeoproterozoic geological history of Broken Hill, NSW, Australia: Speculation towards a synthesis of structure, geochronology and lithological mapping: in    http://acrc.earth.monash.edu.au/ACRC/ Conferences/HallsGapOrg/TonyDonagh    2p
Fitzherbert, J.A. and Downes, P.M.,  2015 - A concise geological history of the Broken Hill region: in   New South Wales Department of Trade and Investment, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Quarterly Notes,   No. 143, pp. 29-43
Fitzherbert, J.A.,  2015 - Refined peak and retrograde metamorphic isograds for the Broken Hill and Euriowie blocks, NSW: in   New South Wales Department of Trade and Investment, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Quarterly Notes,    No. 143, pp. 1-27.
Frost B R, Swapp S M and Mavrogenes J,  2011 - Textural Evidence for Extensive Melting of the Broken Hill Orebody : in    Econ. Geol.   v.106 pp. 869-882
Gibson G  1998 - Regional structure in the Willyama Supergroup and its relevance to mineral exploration in the Broken Hill Inlier: in Gibson G M 1998 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative: Abstracts of papers presented at fourth annual meeting in Broken Hill, October 19-21, 1998 AGSO, Canberra   Rec: 1998/25 pp 38-40
Groves I M, Groves D I, Bierlein F P, Broome J and Penhall J,  2008 - Recognition of the Hydrothermal Feeder to the Structurally Inverted, Giant Broken Hill Deposit, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v103 pp 1389-1394
Haydon R C, McConachy G W  1987 - The stratigraphic setting of Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization at Broken Hill: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 826-856
Heimann A, Spry P G, Teale G S, Conor C H H and Leyh W R,  2009 - Geochemistry of Garnet-Rich Rocks in the Southern Curnamona Province, Australia, and Their Genetic Relationship to Broken Hill-Type Pb-Zn-Ag Mineralization: in    Econ. Geol.   v104 pp. 687-712
Huston D L, Wyborn L, Stevens B  1998 - Pb-Zn-Ag mineral systems: An example from Broken Hill: in Gibson G M 1998 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative: Abstracts of papers presented at fourth annual meeting in Broken Hill, October 19-21, 1998 AGSO, Canberra   Rec: 1998/25 pp 59-63
Johnson I R, Klinger G D  1975 - Broken Hill ore deposit and its environment: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 476-491
Large R R and Crawford A J,  2010 - Basin-Hosted Stratiform Zinc Deposits: the Southern Hemisphere Perspective: in Archibald S M (Ed.), 2010 Proceedings of the Zinc2010 Meeting, Cork 2010, Irish Association for Economic Geology    pp. 118-122
Leach D L, Bradley D C, Huston D, Pisarevsky S A, Taylor R D and Gardoll S J,  2010 - Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits in Earth History : in    Econ. Geol.   v.105 pp. 593-625
Mackenzie D H, Davies R H  1990 - Broken Hill Lead-Silver-Zinc deposit at Z.C. Mines: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1079-1084
Mavrogenes J A, MacIntosh I W, Ellis D J  2001 - Partial melting of the Broken Hill Galena-Sphalerite ore: Experimental studies in the system PbS-FeS-ZnS-(Ag2S): in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 205-210
Morland R, Leevers P R  1998 - Potosi zinc-lead-silver deposit, Broken Hill: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Eds),  Geology of Australian and Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 615-618
Morland R, Webster A E  1998 - Broken Hill lead-zinc-silver deposit: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Eds),  Geology of Australian and Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 619-626
NSW Department of Mineral Resources  1990 - Timely ideas on Broken Hill rocks -and- Cu-Au mineral systems and regional alteration, Curnamona Province: in   Extracts from  Minfo 62, New South Wales Mining & Exploration Quarterly (NSW Dept of Mineral Resources)    pp 14-16, 22-24
Nutman A P, Ehlers K  1998 - Evidence for multiple Palaeoproterozoic thermal events and magmatism adjacent to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia (Abstract only): in    Precambrian Research   v90 p 203
Page R W, Conor C H H, Stevens B P J, Gibson G M, Preiss W V and Southgate P N  2005 - Correlation of Olary and Broken Hill Domanins, Curnamona Province, Australia: Possible Relationship to Mount Isa and Other North Australian Pb-Zn-Ag-Bearing Successions: in    Econ. Geol.   v100 pp 663-676
Page R W, Stevens B P J and Gibson G M  2005 - Geochronology of the Sequence Hosting the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag Orebody, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v100 pp 633-661
Parr J M, Stevens B P J, Carr G R and Page R W  2004 - Subseafloor origin for Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, New South Wales, Australia: in    Geology   v32 pp 589-592
Pasminco Mining  1994 - Pasminco Mining Broken Hill operations, geological overview: in    Pasminco Mining handout    24p
Phillips, G.N.,  2008 - Origin of the Broken Hill silver-lead-zinc deposit: in    AusIMM Bulletin,   October 2008, pp. 32, 34-36, 38.
Sangster, D.F.,  2020 - Evidence that Broken Hill-type Pb-Zn deposits are metamorphosed SEDEX deposits: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.55, pp. 1263-1270.
Sparks, H.A. and Mavrogenes, J.A.,  2005 - Sulfide Melt Inclusions as Evidence for the Existence of a Sulfide Partial Melt at Broken Hill, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v100 pp 773-779
Spry P G, Heimann A, Messerly J D, Houk R S and Teale G S,  2007 - Discrimination of Metamorphic and Metasomatic Processes at the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, Australia: Rare Earth Element Signatures of Garnet-Rich Rocks: in    Econ. Geol.   v102 pp 471-494
Spry, P.G. and Teale, G.S.,  2021 - A classification of Broken Hill-type deposits: A critical review: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.130, 26p. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103935.
Stevens B J P  1998 - The origins of Broken Hill rock types and their relevance to mineralisation: in Gibson G M 1998 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative: Abstracts of papers presented at fourth annual meeting in Broken Hill, October 19-21, 1998 AGSO, Canberra   Rec: 1998/25 pp 109-114
Stevens B P J  1996 - Regional geology of the Broken Hill and Euriowie Blocks: in Pongratz J and Davidson G J (Eds.),  New developments in BrokenHill type deposits, University of Tasmania, CODES Special Publication 1    pp 11-15
Stevens B P J, Barnes R G, Forbes B G  1990 - Willyama Block - regional geology and minor mineralisation: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1065-1072
Stevens B P J, Burton G R  1998 - The early to late Proterozoic Broken Hill Province, New South Wales: in    AGSO J. of Aust. Geol. & Geophys.   v17, no. 3 pp 75-86
Stevens, B.P.J., Page, R.W. and Crooks, A.,  2008 - Geochronology of Willyama Supergroup metavolcanics, metasediments and contemporaneous intrusions, Broken Hill, Australia: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.55, pp. 301-330.
van der Heyden A, Edgecombe D R  1990 - Silver-Lead-Zinc deposit at South Mine, Broken Hill: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1073-1077
Webster A E  1993 - Sulphide orebodies and structure: mapping within an orebody and what it can tell you - an example from Broken Hill NSW: in   Proc. International Mining Geology Conference, Kalgoorlie, WA, 5-8 July 1993 The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 133-141
Webster, A.E.,  2004 - The Structural Evolution of the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, New South Wales, Australia: in    a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania July 2004,   https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22134/, 517p.
White S H, Rothery E, Lips A W L, Barclay T J R  1995 - Broken Hill area, Australia, as a Proterozoic fold and thrust belt: implications for the Broken Hill base-metal deposit: in    Trans. Instn. Min. Metall (Sect. B: Appl. earth sci.)   v104, January-April 1995 pp B1-B17


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