Barilla Mine, Mount Lyndhurst Station, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

Cerussite with conichalcite and quartz 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and Nikon 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin

© R. J. Martin

Balls of conichalcite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and Nikon 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin

© R. J. Martin

Cerrusite pseudomorph of calcite 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and Nikon 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin

© R. J. Martin

Tiny, transparent, prismatic atacamite crystals on dark, deep-red, crystallised cuprite matrix. Ex-Robert French collection, #1090, collected circa 1980s. Purchased in 2024. Stack of 32 images.

© Andrew Hodgson

Restored well for the mine now used for stock. Cattle yards are attached. The mine itself is a small affair on the low hill next to the well, with a couple of stone building ruins. Little information was found. A report in 1894 states the Inspector of Mines looked at the site nine years before but little work has happened at the mine since. ...