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 63
... smelters in Europe . A few of the larger companies built new smelters on the coast : Block 14 at Port Adelaide , Central at Newcastle , and the Proprietary at Port Pirie . The cessation of smelting at Broken Hill thus transferred to the ...
... smelters in Europe . A few of the larger companies built new smelters on the coast : Block 14 at Port Adelaide , Central at Newcastle , and the Proprietary at Port Pirie . The cessation of smelting at Broken Hill thus transferred to the ...
Page 65
... smelting at Port Pirie was strong ; in the balance of gains and losses , the scales may have been tilted ever so slightly . The available descriptions of the transfer of smelters from Broken Hill regard the event as something which just ...
... smelting at Port Pirie was strong ; in the balance of gains and losses , the scales may have been tilted ever so slightly . The available descriptions of the transfer of smelters from Broken Hill regard the event as something which just ...
Page 135
... smelting companies did more for their employees than simply pay them wages . The Wallaroo & Moonta Mining & Smelting Company's men were probably treated more generously than the employees of any large com- pany in Australia . It was an ...
... smelting companies did more for their employees than simply pay them wages . The Wallaroo & Moonta Mining & Smelting Company's men were probably treated more generously than the employees of any large com- pany in Australia . It was an ...
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