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 53
... sulphide problem was solved . The sulphide problem fell harder on the smaller mines . Their oxidized layer was relatively meagre , so they reached the sulphide zone sooner . Broken Hill South - one of the four sur- viving mines on the ...
... sulphide problem was solved . The sulphide problem fell harder on the smaller mines . Their oxidized layer was relatively meagre , so they reached the sulphide zone sooner . Broken Hill South - one of the four sur- viving mines on the ...
Page 66
... Sulphide Corporation , which took over the Central mine and the rights to the Ashcroft process . The plans of the ... problem and to revolutionize the world's zinc industry . All that the most efficient Broken Hill mills could do with their ...
... Sulphide Corporation , which took over the Central mine and the rights to the Ashcroft process . The plans of the ... problem and to revolutionize the world's zinc industry . All that the most efficient Broken Hill mills could do with their ...
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... Sulphide Corporation , a Manchester engineer who had worked for fifteen years in the Tharsis copper mines in Spain . Under Courtney the Sulphide Corpora- tion played a notable part in a new assault on the problem which Aschcroft could ...
... Sulphide Corporation , a Manchester engineer who had worked for fifteen years in the Tharsis copper mines in Spain . Under Courtney the Sulphide Corpora- tion played a notable part in a new assault on the problem which Aschcroft could ...
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