Junction Mine - Browne Shaft Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By Darknstormy on 07-Oct-15. Waypoint GC64PFT

GCLOGAN TripGrimRaider and I visited this location to check out more history about Broken Hills mining. A cool EC and geology lesson. I am travelling with GrimRaider to GCLogan and then to western NSW on our first trip with the van. Thanks for hiding this cache DarknstormyImages

I came here twice today to look for a tradition I only realised this was here with a stage of a AL.Sent the answers in the motel room and now I am logging the find.Thanks to the owner for giving us all a geography lesson

Many moons ago, another lifetime really it was so long. I did visit here as a child and sure we did take a mine tour from here. It's great to see this place and very interesting to learn about it.After a long period of outback, yesterday we turned east at Port Augusta and enjoyed lush greenery and gumtrees of the lower Flinders Rangers as we passed through. Quite a contrast. Having travelled late, we arrived in Manna Hill last night to stay in their towns rest area. Waking to another very different scenery of flat dry country in a little town passed by most travellers, so many trucks, and the odd train. Goats! I love these tiny litte feral goats, it's great to see them as we drive past, yes, the little things amuse me! Took time exploring towns as we passed. Broken Hill kept us way longer than intended or we had time gor, but just made the time. And it was HOT!!! Only 30C but a different heat, still nicer than cold though! We pushed on late into the night, Nyngan was our limit and had a great rest stop facility in town. A good place to stop after a long but great day, thanks fir your cache!

Another long trip around AU over the top end with lots of detours. Now heading back east across the Nullarbor with a stop at Maralinga, Ceduna, Lincoln National Park, Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, Broken Hill & Orange.TFTC. Another wander around this old mine.

Answers sent to the CO.Interesting place. Lots of history and great views.Thanks for the Earthcache.

Found with Zigzoggy and Barbie_OCE. Nice area to look and questions were realively easy. TFTC!!

Found with Xman1507, Barbie_OCE and the_kennanator. TFTC!ANSWERS have been sent

Our few days in Broken Hill were spent largely exploring the geology, the history of the mining and also visiting the living desert and Silverton and beyond. We targeted this earth cache on our first morning, keen to see some of the mining history here. Answers sent to CO. Thanks DarknStormyDomsky

A nice view from the top of the mineshaft. Exploring Broken Hill after not being here for 19 years I just realised.Thanks DarknstormyImages for the earthcache.

Wow what a great Earth cache Darknstormy, and such fun to find and look about. Buddy the geodog helped us with this one. Found on May 19, 2024. # 9190Answers sent to the CO. Deserves a favourite point.

Out exploring Broken Hill on a cold autumn day and this was the next stop. What a fantastic piece of preserved history. Great to explore the area and to ponder the questions for this Earth cache TFTC

#19597 - 4:01:00 PM; Day four of a road trip taking the long way to Adelaide from the National Capital with the geohoney. Spent the night in Broken Hill, and after grabbing brunch, we set off to Silverton for some sightseeing, collecting a few caches in and around the town, before heading back. On return to Broken Hill, we did more sightseeing and caching as well. Stopped off at the Junction mine and did the geology lesson, gathering the information required for this cache. Answers have been sent to the CO to get the OK. TFTE DarknstormyImages

Really great how close you can get to the buildings here, and how well preserved they areAnswers sent, tftc

Stopped here with freddo as the previous finder helped with the answers, great bit of history here.Headed over to the Capital GeoBash in Canberra, ACT with Freddo over 5 days, travelling through the central part of NSW before caching around the hinterlands. A nice few days over with great weather.Thanks for the cache

Very interesting history of the Junction Mine. Thank you so much for this cache.

What a great place to visit while in town for the weekend from Brisbane. I was up and out this morning well before the sun was up, to grab some caches around town before meeting up with friends a little later. Fortunately, the sun was up when I arrived here which provided me a much better experience around GZ. I wandered around, observed what I needed for the earth science lesson, read through the information signs and snapped some pics, as you do. I also revisited a day later with Mrs Gunnie so she could enjoy here as well. Thanks for bringing me up here, certainly a place I would be unlikely to find if not for caching.Cheers DarknstormyImages.

TFTC DarknstormyImages your cache Junction Mine - Browne Shaft that we found today we made our way south for Christmas. After leaving McCullochs Rest area this morning we continued on our route to Broken Hill. A short stop in Wilcannia to grab some info for a couple of multis. Arriving in Broken Hill we set up camp at the Starview Primitive camping in the Living Desert Park. We headed out to do some caching. We targeted some for today and this was one of them.Find Count: 17296

Day three of the road trip, brought to you by (many, many) goats, a lot of emus and an eagle. Another WP for the AL and another earthcache. Answers sent. What a lot of history to see here. [^]

Continuing my adventure, I came to this earthcache. There is so much history here. Thanks for bringing me to visit....and TFTC

Slay spachlous

Day 25. A last minute plan had been hatched to make my by way to QOGM. Very little planning had been done but a very rough outline was in place and it was going to be a day by day trip.I continued the journey home, tagging on with posums for a few days. After spending the night at Innamincka we headed south through Camerons Corner and then I headed further south to get close to the border.A late night visit here and I managed to explore the area. Answers submitted to the CO.Thanks DarknstormyImages for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Are you planning a trip to Victoria? Check out some of these caches on the nominees list for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards. The shortlist is available [here](https://coord.info/BMC8QYR)

Found with the geofamily as we explore parts of the country we’ve never been too. Amazing history here. Answers sent - thanks for the fun and adventure!

Something special or unusual goes here:Interesting place to explore. Thanks for bringing me here. Enjoying the tour around Broken Hill called in here to get some answers which have been sent. As usual I can only hope they are somewhere near the mark because as a geologist I make a pretty good cacher!The Generic Bit:QOGM adventure - I was able to catch a ride with Muff1 who were heading to the QOGM event and team up for 3 weeks of caching adventures. 3 weeks in a swag - will my back hold out[?]Day 2: Today we moved eastwards from Cockburn only as far as Silverton for the night so we could explore around there and Broken Hill. **SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks DarknstormyImages for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

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Freddo and Team Waldron headed to warmer climes around Broken Hill, Cobar, Bourke, Cunnamulla
and Charleville.

After a cold start in Broken Hill the weather improved once we got further north. Sadly our last night in Broken was wet which, pardon the pun, put a dampener on things.

All up it was a great week away and lots of caches were found with only 3 dnfs.

Thanks to all who placed and maintained their caches. The occasional cache was damaged and we refurbished it and we also left new logbooks as required.

Answers have been forwarded to cache owner.

TFTC

Found on a wet and cold day. Day 2 of my eastern adventure TFTEC

Cramming in the last little bits of Broken Hill sightseeing before heading back to the big smoke. It was great that they left this in place to give some context.

TFTC Thank you for creating this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

Junction Mine - Browne Shaft
1.5/1.5
Other
Earthcache

Answers sent.

Thank you for this earthcache Darknstormy. Very educational and fun.

Been awhile since I found a Darknstormy cache!
Found the nearby trad after a DNF 8 years ago, then gleaned the answers to this earth lesson.
Answers on their way...
TFTEC

Some more great geology to learn up here. Loved some of the things that were pointed out.
Answers sent to CO. Awesome views here too.

Coybear2000 and I were in Broken Hill for a few days and we came here to do the earth cache, the trad and the AL. We gathered the info and read about the mine here, as well we looked on-line as suggested. TFTC.

Done with Trodectus while doing caches in BH. Interesting visit to the mine and reading the info. TFTEC

Have sent answers to CO.

Here for Easter from Adelaide revisiting places we used to visit when living here 25 years ago. Thanks for the memories and great caches.

We continued today our tour in NewSouthWales, AUS, and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Earth-Cache.

The weather was - said in one word – simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood.

The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The answers were sent.

Thanks to Darknstormy for the generation of this nice cache Junction Mine - Browne Shaft (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.

PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they appeared.

Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 29. März 2023 @ 18:18 o'clock @ [#20500](https://coord.info/GC64PFT)
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#12126 10:41
Together with my son, I am on a camping trip from Sydney to Broken Hill and back. On our 3000 km journey over 11 days we have seen some wonderful little towns, beautiful landscapes and many interesting geocaches.

I love industrial heritage/history, so I found this a fascinating spot and we spent quite some time at the different information signs and artefacts. The answers were found and sent to the CO.

TFTC.

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

What a fabulous location to explore.

Answers sent to CO and permission to log granted.

Tftc

Ocw the Bebes. What an interesting spot. Enjoyed the visit. Our answers sent by the Bebes. Tftec

Answers sent in to CO.

Interesting spot. Some of the recent mullock is full of red garnets too!

What a year Sandyofthesea and I have had. We kitted out the Prado and took off from Perth, Western Australia at the start of April 2022 to travel more of Australia using geocaching as a guide to see the sights. We started with the Nullabour, Eyre and York Peninsulas, the Riverlands, visited family in Victoria and then back in SA it got cold. Flinders and the Oodnadatta Track was amazing and we finally warmed up in Dalhousie Springs. The Alice beckoned and then a change of plan and we ended up tackling the Tanami Track to the Kimberley and Bungles Bungles. Territory Day in Darwin was unhinged - please try and do it! The Gulf, the coast and the car breaker ‘Old Tele Track’ to the top of Cape York. This is a must but it’s not easy! Eventually made it to Brisbane to get some fixes to the car….. let’s see where we end up.

DarknstormyImages, I found Junction Mine - Browne Shaft today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found with TeamBarritts on our road trip west back home to Perth from Brisbane!!

Out for another day of caching with BJA3 heading home to Perth.

All good here,  thanks for placing and maintaining this hide for us and others to enjoy!

Answers sent to CO!

We came to the mine shaft, Purrfect Di and Jack and I poked the rocks and pondered some answers...

Sent to CO. And enjoyed the views. Learning a bit about the broken hill and how to fix it
Sure is a lot of digging still going on after all these years.


Thanks DarknstormyImages for locating this earthcache on our ever growing Aussie geo-map


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Great of all those placing quality caches out and about around the country areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

Really appreciate you reading all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and we can put an end to these long logs !!!




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Found on our western NSW tour before the floods set in.
Answers sent to the CO.

TFTC

TFTC DarknstormyImages

Found by Mary and David at 16:00. Well hello - ages since we've seen you. We're returning from QOGM 2022 at Charleville, but going the long way. Wonderful to be able to travel again. Our thanks to DarknstormyImages.

It is great you can get up close to one of the original mines, now just a home for flying rats. Answers sent by DQ for both of us. Thanks for the interesting earth cache.

Was up here to do the trad when noticed an Earth Cache as well. Nice piece of history here.
Answers sent to CO

What an interesting spot with real access to history, we did this cache on the 2nd and sent answers to co, we are leaving broken hill and wanted log before we left, thanks for the cache

Tftc great industrial and environment history lesson this town Thankyou for the cache location

Visiting this interesting town with its history
Just love those quaint little stone cottages. Came up here to view this multi
Answers sent
Many thanks

Came up to see a great historical sight and learn some great facts!

Visited this location today. Answers sent to CO. Very interesting to get this close to the mine site. TFTC.

We have been to this area many times on our travels through Broken Hill. It was good to have another reason to return to this spot. SL TFTC

Tftc

Worked out and found with tassie expat while exploring this interesting area. Please refer to Tassies answers submitted to CO. Thanks for the earth cache.

frmen1 and I braved the drizzle to grab the answers for this EC and have a look around the old mine shaft. Answers sent in. Thanks for bringing us here.

Emailed the answers a few days ago. Going to log it now so I don't forget to!!
After having a bad run in with a kangaroo on the highway, I had a couple of days in Broken Hill to amuse myself while my car insurer was working out how to get me home (to Port Macquarie). I took a long walking tour around many of the caches in town. Really enjoyed discovering so much about the history of Broken Hill. TFTC Darknstormy

Great little spot for a wander around

This one was definitely one that got discussed at length. Thank you for bringing us here with this cache. We both love the huge structural beams and surviving infrastructure. A favourite for us.

This was a great location for an cache. We had a great look around and yes . . . . I took more photos. We loved the infrastructure that is still here. It is massive. The earth cache inspired a lot of discussion. Thank you for bringing us here with the placing of this cache.

An amazing part of history.
Thanks for sharing this interesting location.
TFTEC

On our road trip through NSW, QLD and soon to Victoria, we ended up in Broken Hill, which fascinated us with its history. There is so much to discover here. Thanks to this Earth cache we were shown the abandoned Junctuin Mine. A super exciting environment.
TFTC

Kelligula and I travelled to Broken Hill for the weekend and picked up a few caches.

Found with RamaTim. In BH for the weekend. Grabbing a few rare caches while we are hear. TFTC

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This Earthcache was placed after I was last here, however remembered GZ and headed back here with a few friends.

A bit of a wander and we could find the geology in question and make some observations.

Answers will be sent when back in Sydney next week, logging to preserve order.

Thanks!

#16240 @1820
Day 2 of a road trip to find a few more counties. Another interesting spot to stop and discover more of our history and geology. Answers submitted. TFTC.

Came to this location really early in the morning for the sunrise. It did not disappoint. Got some great sun rise shots of the run rising along the mine.
Enjoyed finding the answers for this EC, really made me think about the terrain that has been left behind once the minerals mined here have been exhausted.

This is a great location and I visited it a few times to do the different cache types. Took pics of the tanks up above the iron ore. Read all of the info and enjoyed the view across to the north mine.

Responses sent to the CO

TFTC Darknstormy Dropping a FAVE here.

5th visit to Broken Hill and the place still impresses me. Answers sent. TFTC.

Found with O319. TFTC

We did this earth cache while visiting the area. Found the mine interesting and walked around the whole pile . Answers sent to CO and hoped they are correct. Thanks for the cache

Came back in daylight for another look at the outcrop.
Interesting thst this has not been blasted away.
Answers to come soon
Thank you for hiding this geocache Darknstormy
Find number 22703
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Visited this minehead with MummyPenny today and got intimate with the rockpile. Loved thehistoric signage and photos explaining the makeup of this iconic hill. Thanks Darknstormy.

Continuing this town's obsession with geology and its huge debt to same!
Also the magnitude of time span is so obvious here.
Thanks Darknstormy

What an amazing complex remaining here. Great there are informative signs to aid in understanding it better TFTC

sorry for late log a lot has happened ,so now just catching up with answers and logs
tftc and great views

11/04/2021 1:01:00 PM
Made a last minute split decision to head up here as we were heading out of town after seeing the signed turn off and glad we did, lots of history and excellent view point.
Thanks Darknstormy

With Oz Keg

Visited with Mrs Oz KEG. Thanks for taking us to this spot and for the cache.

We’d had a busy day sightseeing & we came here late in the afternoon. What a great interesting spot to check out. Thanks for bringing us here. Answers sent

Find number 9084 at 4:27:47 pm on Friday the 2 April 2021
Arrived Broken Hill, staying for the long weekend and then heading south again on Monday. Home via Mildura and someplace else when we work that out.
It's nice to be able to get so up close and personnal with some of these structures.
**Thanks for placing this cache DarknstormyImages**

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Terrific to get up close to one of the mineshafts And read all the information that there is about it. Thanks for bringing us here.

And here we are. It is 2022, and after moving my life half the world away to Australia, discovering that Geocaching there without my friends was not as fun, generally trying to survive Australian fauna and flora and finding a job, only doing Geocaching on occasion during 2019, and then the pandemic hitting in 2020 and putting almost a complete halt to all traveling and finding, plus finally coming back to Europe to try and redo my life here this year… I have decided to sit down and log online all of the records I had gathered offline during these years. Some are lost forever (don’t trust your phone for years on end with offline logs), but hopefully I will manage to recover enough logs to paint a few broad strokes of what these years were, and the places they took me to.
Apologies in advance to all owners for this (in some cases, very) delayed logging. I can only say that sometimes we are not in the best place, and it takes time to find oneself. Thanks in advance for the hides, the places you took me to, and the stories you shared in the way.

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Seeing how the pandemic seems to be spiking, we decide to stay within NSW for our Xmas holidays. But as we have not gone anywhere in almost a year, we decide to take a roadtrip and get to the furthest place possible within the state (yup, northwest corner). On the way, we go through mining towns, Broken Hill, Opal towns, Celtic towns, Casino... all the way north to Byron Bay and the border with Queensland, as we hoped to cross over to Brisbane to see a friend we had not been able to visit since all of this started.
Due to the crazy raining, flash floods and a spike in the pandemic and border closures, our trip has to go through a few changes, but we end up doing enough kilometers to have travelled from the west coast of Canada to the east coast of Canada, and all within NSW!

We start our trip heading to the Broken Hill area, where we spend a couple of days and visit Silverton.

TFTC!

found it great views

After a very hectic day we managed to escape SA, Ending up in Wentworth way after midnight. This morning on day 6 of our road trip it was re planning time, no caches for hundreds of kilometers either way. So we ended up heading to Broken Hill and Silverton. Great caching day, but again very hot!
TFTC Wilbert67

We’re had planned a caching trip with Wilbert67 to SA and had to cut it short due to COVID lock down, so we came to Broken Hill, it has been so hot today but managed to bag a few caches including this one.
TFTC

First earth cache of the day so great to be back in this area. I always find this region so fascinating. Thanks for giving us another way to explore the mine.

Stopped in here as part of our Great Western County Hunt. It has been a truly incredible trip, as I managed to pick up the last four counties I needed to fill in my NSW county map. A super exciting thing to complete. Thanks for enabling our crazy adventures. Thanks for the cache.

Answers sent to co. An interesting site. Thanks for showing me the history. TFTEC.

Thanks for bringing us to this location Darknstormy, always enjoy learning something new.

Answers sent. An interesting place to visit. A small tour bus pulled up with tourists while I was here. TFTC Darknstormy.

This is a fascinating site, getting up so close to major historic infrastructure as well as getting to see how the outcrops once looked. Thanks for the earthcache Darknstormy!

Sent required info to CO yesterday for consideration.

Found this cache with Pa today and researched all the answers . They have been sent to the CO. Thanks for this Earth cache and bringing us to this GZ.


Logged on 24 October. Answers sent 21 October.

Thanks for bringing us here. Found on day 3 of our Canberra to Broken Hill to Lightning Ridge trip. A fav point for the history and location. TFTEC.

Headed out on a 10-day trip to outback NSW with fitzy_1965 and albida33.

Day 3 saw us head from Cobar to Broken Hill via Willcania where we had lunch. It even rained for about a minute there. In logs we signed as MK, F65 & A33.

Took our time investigating the required information. Sent answers to CO and permission to log has been given. Thanks for bringing us to this amazing place.

West New South Wales trip 2020. Day 3. I was joined by MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 for a trip planned to go from Goulburn to Forbes, Nyngen, Cobar, Broken Hill, Wentworth and Balranald. Today we left Cobar having found all the local caches yesterday. It was a long straight drive to Broken Hill with a few caches scattered along the way, plus a dual multi in Wilcannia along with a short sharp outback rainshower. We ended the day with an evening tour of Earthcaches around Broken Hill.

This is a great spot to get up close to a real mine. Lots of left over stuff around and a great area to see some of the last remaining evidence of the geology that drew people to the area. e-mail sent by MinnieK.

Thanks for the cache Darknstormy

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2014 Cache Warrior 3 A#296

**Albida**

21,490. Found with minniek and albida33 during our September Outback Adventure Tour.

Day 3 - We drove from Cobar to Broken Hill, finding many interesting caches along the way. This was the next find of the day, and this was a fascinating place to visit and learn about the mining history. We wandered around gathering the required info and have sent our answers to the CO, with permission to log received.

Thanks Darknstormy !! Favourite Point !!

Lovely to get to look around the machinery and view

Visited here on this very cold day. Interesting history here. Answers sent to CO. TFTC