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 57
... engineers who possessed some knowledge of the mining sciences . A professional approach to running a mine was more apparent ... engineer from Silverton's surviving mine . Uriah Dudley was manager of the Umberumberka mine and lectured ...
... engineers who possessed some knowledge of the mining sciences . A professional approach to running a mine was more apparent ... engineer from Silverton's surviving mine . Uriah Dudley was manager of the Umberumberka mine and lectured ...
Page 65
... engineer with the Proprietary , believed he had the solution , if only someone would provide the money . J.S. Reid , fast becoming the champion promoter in Australian mining , was interested , and went to London in 65.
... engineer with the Proprietary , believed he had the solution , if only someone would provide the money . J.S. Reid , fast becoming the champion promoter in Australian mining , was interested , and went to London in 65.
Page 149
... engineer , A.J. Keast , from Canada to build new mill and offices and amenities and to expand the Zinc Cor- poration's mine into the biggest on the field . With lead prices rising his company launched New Broken Hill to explore the ...
... engineer , A.J. Keast , from Canada to build new mill and offices and amenities and to expand the Zinc Cor- poration's mine into the biggest on the field . With lead prices rising his company launched New Broken Hill to explore the ...
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