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The mines founded on the Broken Hill Ore Deposit – the world's richest lead-zinc ore body – have until recently provided the majority of direct employment and indirect employment in the city. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company became Australia's largest mining company, and later became part of the world's largest mining company, BHP .
Old Kintore headframe, now a museum exhibit, Broken Hill Former Delprat mine, Line of Lode, Broken Hill, 2017. The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town. It is arguably the world's richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit.
Mining commenced at Broken Hill, NSW in 1885, initially for lead in the form of galena and then the ore deposit was found to contain silver & zinc. [3] As well as the mine at Broken Hill, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) had also established smelter operations at Port Pirie in South Australia. [4]
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The former Broken Hill Proprietary Company logo. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP), also known by the nickname "the Big Australian", [21] was incorporated on 13 August 1885, operating the silver and lead mine at Broken Hill, in western New South Wales, Australia. [22] [23] The Broken Hill group floated on 10 August 1885. [24]
The company's initial operations focused on extracting zinc from mine tailings of the Broken Hill Ore Deposit at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [1] The company was founded in Melbourne on 9 September 1905 as the Zinc Corporation Limited, to exploit residual zinc concentrations with an estimated value of $12 million in the 6 million tons of mine tailings deposited from mining ...
BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd.), formed in 1885, faced technical and logistical challenges in mining and processing the ore bodies. [1] [2] Broken Hill grew quickly. A population of 17,000 in 1889 had more than doubled to 35,000 in 1914, putting it on the map as the then third-largest city in New South wales.
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