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 19
... shaft failed to produce those magnificent specimens of silver which , assaying hundreds or thousands of ounces to ... shaft , sent to the surface in a bucket , and in ignorance tipped on the dump . It was not very dramatic . Only the ...
... shaft failed to produce those magnificent specimens of silver which , assaying hundreds or thousands of ounces to ... shaft , sent to the surface in a bucket , and in ignorance tipped on the dump . It was not very dramatic . Only the ...
Page 98
... shafts were cramped . The busiest shaft on the field in 1900 was the Stewart Shaft at the Proprietary mine . Measuring 9 feet by 9 feet 6 inches , and a mere quarter of the size of the largest shaft on the field a generation later , it ...
... shafts were cramped . The busiest shaft on the field in 1900 was the Stewart Shaft at the Proprietary mine . Measuring 9 feet by 9 feet 6 inches , and a mere quarter of the size of the largest shaft on the field a generation later , it ...
Page 158
... shafts found nothing . A London company known as Barrier South held the ground from 1913 , and its shaft went down more than one thousand feet without finding anything . The shaft at least served as a water well , and Barrier South ...
... shafts found nothing . A London company known as Barrier South held the ground from 1913 , and its shaft went down more than one thousand feet without finding anything . The shaft at least served as a water well , and Barrier South ...
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