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 31
... ground which Rasp had failed to peg . The following two miles - all in Rasp's old ground - were occupied in succession by Block 10 , the Proprietary , Block 14 , and the British , all big mines with their western ground crammed with ...
... ground which Rasp had failed to peg . The following two miles - all in Rasp's old ground - were occupied in succession by Block 10 , the Proprietary , Block 14 , and the British , all big mines with their western ground crammed with ...
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... ground in the honeycombed upper workings . The evidence of these movements of ground was visible even on the surface where large cracks appeared in the country rock . Unfortunately the early smelting works , power houses , railway lines ...
... ground in the honeycombed upper workings . The evidence of these movements of ground was visible even on the surface where large cracks appeared in the country rock . Unfortunately the early smelting works , power houses , railway lines ...
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... ground - partly caused by the width of the lode and the inadequacies of early mining methods - called for alertness . Usually the ground talked and rumbled , or the underground timbers creaked or bent , giving warning when a large block ...
... ground - partly caused by the width of the lode and the inadequacies of early mining methods - called for alertness . Usually the ground talked and rumbled , or the underground timbers creaked or bent , giving warning when a large block ...
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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