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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... Sydney at £ 9 a share . To entice investors who were short of ready cash the company offered to accept a deposit of ... Sydney , they were so isolated that they gave Sydney only a few pebbles of commerce . Few Sydney men acquired shares ...
... Sydney at £ 9 a share . To entice investors who were short of ready cash the company offered to accept a deposit of ... Sydney , they were so isolated that they gave Sydney only a few pebbles of commerce . Few Sydney men acquired shares ...
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... Sydney's stock exchange was not a lively mining casino and in part because few Sydney investors visited the silverfields in those crucial years when Broken Hill shares were cheap . One can understand why mining specula- tors from Sydney ...
... Sydney's stock exchange was not a lively mining casino and in part because few Sydney investors visited the silverfields in those crucial years when Broken Hill shares were cheap . One can understand why mining specula- tors from Sydney ...
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... Sydney and Adelaide for the traffic which had once been car- ried in paddle - steamers on the Darling and Murray and was now increasingly deflected to the railways ; it was Adelaide's latest answer to the new railway from Sydney which ...
... Sydney and Adelaide for the traffic which had once been car- ried in paddle - steamers on the Darling and Murray and was now increasingly deflected to the railways ; it was Adelaide's latest answer to the new railway from Sydney which ...
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