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New South Wales

Sunny Corner mineral field

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: galena, sphalerite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Silver, gold and base metal mines of the 1880s in state forest east of Bathurst

Documented in New South Wales geological survey records and collector guides.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts, arsenic-rich dumps

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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