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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... miles from the hill . The country around was often called desert , and even in lush years its carrying capacity was measured in acres to the sheep rather than in sheep to the acre . Accordingly the sheep stations were large ; Mount ...
... miles from the hill . The country around was often called desert , and even in lush years its carrying capacity was measured in acres to the sheep rather than in sheep to the acre . Accordingly the sheep stations were large ; Mount ...
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... miles . By one route passengers went on Australia's longest inland railway to its terminus at Bourke , 500 miles north - west of Sydney , and then travelled in the bi - weekly mail coach down the Darling to Wilcannia , and then 140 ...
... miles . By one route passengers went on Australia's longest inland railway to its terminus at Bourke , 500 miles north - west of Sydney , and then travelled in the bi - weekly mail coach down the Darling to Wilcannia , and then 140 ...
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... miles south to Terowie where the broad - gauge railway to Adelaide began . Even before the silverfield had proved rich the South Australian Government was tentatively planning a railway from Peterborough to the New South Wales border in ...
... miles south to Terowie where the broad - gauge railway to Adelaide began . Even before the silverfield had proved rich the South Australian Government was tentatively planning a railway from Peterborough to the New South Wales border in ...
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Illustrations | 7 |
The Magnates | 33 |
End of the Honeymoon | 49 |
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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