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 69
... lead prices were high . But the price of lead fell early in the 1900s and several thousand men at Broken Hill had to be dismissed . Between 1900 and 1902 the average number of men employed on the line of lode declined from 7400 to 5000 ...
... lead prices were high . But the price of lead fell early in the 1900s and several thousand men at Broken Hill had to be dismissed . Between 1900 and 1902 the average number of men employed on the line of lode declined from 7400 to 5000 ...
Page 149
... lead prices rising his company launched New Broken Hill to explore the south end of the field in the hope ... price of lead . Introduced in 1925 , during the first successful round - table conference of the new era of negotia- tion , and ...
... lead prices rising his company launched New Broken Hill to explore the south end of the field in the hope ... price of lead . Introduced in 1925 , during the first successful round - table conference of the new era of negotia- tion , and ...
Page 167
... price of silver hit Broken Hill can be gauged from the following estimate for 1907. I selected a year when Broken Hill's profits were hit less than usual by low silver prices ; in 1907 the price of lead and zinc were compensatingly high ...
... price of silver hit Broken Hill can be gauged from the following estimate for 1907. I selected a year when Broken Hill's profits were hit less than usual by low silver prices ; in 1907 the price of lead and zinc were compensatingly high ...
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