The Rise of Broken HillThe story of the men who made and spent their fortunes, and of the miners who won that fortune from the Hill. |
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... 12160 WILCANNIA 1440 QUEEN DARLING SILVERTON BROKEN HILL NEW MENINDIE LACHLAN RI MURRUMBID MURRAY DE NIL ECHUCA BENDIGO VICTO BALLARAT NELBO GEELONG BRISBANE 28 COCKLE CREEK NEWCASTLE LITHGOW SYDNEY PORT KEMBLA DAPTO.
... 12160 WILCANNIA 1440 QUEEN DARLING SILVERTON BROKEN HILL NEW MENINDIE LACHLAN RI MURRUMBID MURRAY DE NIL ECHUCA BENDIGO VICTO BALLARAT NELBO GEELONG BRISBANE 28 COCKLE CREEK NEWCASTLE LITHGOW SYDNEY PORT KEMBLA DAPTO.
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... Bendigo had an area of forty acres which could faintly match in wealth the richest forty acres at Broken Hill . And whereas the demo- cratic mining law of the early goldfields would have divided forty acres into many small claims , the ...
... Bendigo had an area of forty acres which could faintly match in wealth the richest forty acres at Broken Hill . And whereas the demo- cratic mining law of the early goldfields would have divided forty acres into many small claims , the ...
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... 80 Associated Pulp and Paper Mills , 81 , 156 tors , 62 Bedford , Randolph , cited , 28 Bendigo , 33 Bergius , Friedrich , 82 BHP , see Mining Companies Broken Hill Water Supply Co. , 28-29 , 106 Brookfield 177 Index.
... 80 Associated Pulp and Paper Mills , 81 , 156 tors , 62 Bedford , Randolph , cited , 28 Bendigo , 33 Bergius , Friedrich , 82 BHP , see Mining Companies Broken Hill Water Supply Co. , 28-29 , 106 Brookfield 177 Index.
Contents
Illustrations | 7 |
The Magnates | 33 |
End of the Honeymoon | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Adelaide Australian mining Barrier Industrial Council Barrier Ranges base-metal Bavay became BHP's Block 14 Broken Hill companies Broken Hill mines Broken Hill Proprietary Broken Hill South cent Charles Rasp coast Cockle Creek concentrate danger Darling River Delprat dividends drill dust early favourable flotation process gold ground Hill's horse hydraulic fill industrial iron Kalgoorlie Labour lead-poisoning leaders line of lode London magnetic manager McCulloch Melbourne metal miles militants mill miners mining companies mining field Mount Gipps North Broken Hill open cut ounce paid plant plates Port Pirie profits railway Rasp rich rock Roy Bridges shaft shareholders shares sheep station silver and lead silver-lead silverfield smelters smelting South Australia South Wales stopes strike Sulphide Corporation sulphide problem Sydney syndicate Terowie timber tion town tralia underground union unionists W.S. Robinson wages Wilcannia workers Zeehan Zinc Corporation