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The rise of Broken Hill

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Macmillan of Australia, 1968 - Technology & Engineering - 184 pages

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Wow, it took me a long time to get through this one - not owing to it being a bad book - it's just that my reading time this month has been hammered. Now I have to read two books in the next week to ... Read full review

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Contents

Illustrations
7
The Magnates
33
End of the Honeymoon
49
Copyright

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Adelaide Australia Australian mining Barrier Industrial Council Barrier Ranges base-metal Bavay became Block 14 boom 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 industrial iron Kalgoorlie Labour lead-poisoning leaders line of lode London magnetic manager McCulloch Melbourne miles militants mill miners mining companies mining field Mount Gipps North Broken Hill open cut ounce paid plant plates Port Pirie price of lead profits railway Rasp rich rock Roy Bridges shaft shareholders shares sheep station silver and lead silver-lead silverfield smelters smelting South Wales standard of living stopes strike Sulphide Corporation sulphide problem Sydney syndicate timber tion town tralia underground union unionists W.S. Robinson wages Wilcannia workers Zeehan Zinc Corporation

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TitleThe rise of Broken Hill
AuthorGeoffrey Blainey
Editionillustrated
PublisherMacmillan of Australia, 1968
Length184 pages
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