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Among lead-zinc-silver deposits, Broken Hill is so large and important economically that it cannot be ignored, but is so complicated geologically, that interpretation of its origin and even its original geological environment is difficult! It is a very instructive example of the situation faced by geologists in trying to understand a deposit in which most of the evidence of its original nature has been destroyed by metamorphism and deformation.
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Gustafson, J. K., Burrell, H. C., Garretty, M. D. (1950). Geology of the Broken Hill Ore Deposit, Broken Hill, N.S.W. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 61, 1369–1414. [Perhaps the most complete description of the deposit, but based on work done in the late thirties, and many of the interpretations and particularly the genetic ideas lack the advantage of more recently available evidence.]
King, H. F., Thompson, B. P. (1953). The Geology of the Broken Hill District. In: Geology of Australia Ore Deposits, 1st edn (Edwards, A. B., ed.), pp. 533–77, 5th Empire Min. Met. Congr., Melbourne.
King, H. F., Thompson, B. P., O’Driscoll, E. S. (1953). The Broken Hill Lode. In: Geology of Australia Ore Deposits, 1st edn (Edwards, A. B., ed.), pp. 578–600, 5th Empire Min. Met. Congr., Melbourne. [These two papers set out the metastratiform interpretation. Several other useful papers on the deposit may be found in the same volume.]
Lewis, B. R., Forward, P. S., Roberts, J. B. (1965), Geology of the Broken Hill Lode, Reinterpreted. In: Geology of Australia Ore Deposits, 2nd edn (McAndrew, J., ed.), pp. 319–329 8th Commonwealth Min. Met. Congr., Melbourne.
Carruthers, D. S. (1965), An Environmental View of Broken Hill Ore Occurrence. In: Geology of Australia Ore Deposits, 2nd edn (McAndrew, J., ed., pp. 339–351, 8th Commonwealth Min. Met. Congr., Melbourne. [These two papers are good reviews of the evidence and opinion of the day, putting alternative points of view on the origin.]
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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Broken Hill Deposit — Australia. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_24
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