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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.
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]
Broken Hill Town Hall Broken Hill Technical College In 1933, Broken Hill was the third largest urban incorporated area in New South Wales, having a population of 26,925. [ 58 ] Broken Hill's population peaked at around 30,000 in the early 1960s and has shrunk by one third since the heyday of the 1970s zinc boom, with the decrease attributed to ...
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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 ...
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In September 1885 a prospectus was issued for the formation of a company called Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company Limited with paid-up capital of £100,000 and rights to purchase Mineral Lease blocks 5, 6, 7, and 8, totalling 149.5 acres (60.5 ha) adjacent BHP's celebrated property, their intention being to exploit them sequentially. [1]
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