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 18
... shareholders continued to carry out their daily work on the sheep station ; the mine was merely a speculation which called for some of their savings , fed their daydreams and pro- voked discussion at the homestead in the evening . With ...
... shareholders continued to carry out their daily work on the sheep station ; the mine was merely a speculation which called for some of their savings , fed their daydreams and pro- voked discussion at the homestead in the evening . With ...
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... shareholder , pottering about the dump , awakened the syndicate to the value of the specimens . The shaft - it was ... shareholders , and their shares were bought at rising prices by local speculators - William Jamieson , a government ...
... shareholder , pottering about the dump , awakened the syndicate to the value of the specimens . The shaft - it was ... shareholders , and their shares were bought at rising prices by local speculators - William Jamieson , a government ...
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... shareholders . One mark of the shareholder is the right to share in the profits of an enter- prise . All employees of the mining companies receive , in addition to wages , part of the profits in the form of a bonus based on the price of ...
... shareholders . One mark of the shareholder is the right to share in the profits of an enter- prise . All employees of the mining companies receive , in addition to wages , part of the profits in the form of a bonus based on the price of ...
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