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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Page 38
... Roy Bridges in his racy book From Silver to Steel . Within six years that share and all the rights and dividends which accompanied it were worth , he estimates , a clear £ 1,250,000 . It would be unromantic to add that the prize in the ...
... Roy Bridges in his racy book From Silver to Steel . Within six years that share and all the rights and dividends which accompanied it were worth , he estimates , a clear £ 1,250,000 . It would be unromantic to add that the prize in the ...
Page 163
... Roy Bridges , From Silver to Steel , pp . 55-73 . He had the advantage of interviewing some of the surviving members of the syndicate . The first prospectus of BHP is reprinted in From Silver to Steel , pp . 104-7 . The Roads to Hell ...
... Roy Bridges , From Silver to Steel , pp . 55-73 . He had the advantage of interviewing some of the surviving members of the syndicate . The first prospectus of BHP is reprinted in From Silver to Steel , pp . 104-7 . The Roads to Hell ...
Page 166
... Roy Bridges , From Silver to Steel , p . 93 . The Creators I gathered a lot of information on these promoters from scat- tered sources , consulted while I was writing a history of Aus- tralian mining . Several Broken Hill promoters ...
... Roy Bridges , From Silver to Steel , p . 93 . The Creators I gathered a lot of information on these promoters from scat- tered sources , consulted while I was writing a history of Aus- tralian mining . Several Broken Hill promoters ...
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