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 33
... goldfields of south - eastern Australia had produced in their entire history . Neither Ballarat nor Bendigo had an area of forty acres which could faintly match in wealth the richest forty acres at Broken Hill . And whereas the demo ...
... goldfields of south - eastern Australia had produced in their entire history . Neither Ballarat nor Bendigo had an area of forty acres which could faintly match in wealth the richest forty acres at Broken Hill . And whereas the demo ...
Page 47
... with a small population ; thus , in the 1890s , the new Western Australian goldfields and the mineral boom on the west coast of Tasmania had a dramatic influence on their respective colonies , partly because the popu- 47.
... with a small population ; thus , in the 1890s , the new Western Australian goldfields and the mineral boom on the west coast of Tasmania had a dramatic influence on their respective colonies , partly because the popu- 47.
Page 126
... gold- fields and many base - metal fields were declining in the years 1908-1914 , and the pinch on wages led to strikes . It was a common practice to blacklist the militants , and was easily accomplished on smaller fields where only one ...
... gold- fields and many base - metal fields were declining in the years 1908-1914 , and the pinch on wages led to strikes . It was a common practice to blacklist the militants , and was easily accomplished on smaller fields where only one ...
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