Neither of us had been to Broken Hill, though it had been on the wishlist for a long time. We'd actually started planning a trip while in Victoria - and had begun a family eBay fundraising mission when life intervened very soon afterward, which sparked our Great Cull of 2015.There was no mistaking Broken Hill as a mining town, cos the main mine was beside the road as we entered the township. It was just massive. Wow.
We spent some time chatting at the tourist information office and then back-tracked to see the Line of Lode Miners Memorial. It was sobering to read all the names.
Junction Mine was our next stop - a free access site with limited signage but we enjoyed walking around, looking at the infrastructure.
We had a lunch break and then poked around the mineral museum, where there was a 42 kilo silver nugget in the collection. Large rock samples are housed outside in the miner's cottage next door, so we looked at those also.
The lovely yellow flowering gum is a specimen tree from Western Australia.
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