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The term Broken Hill was first used by the early British Explorer Charles Sturt in his diaries during his search for an inland sea in 1844. Western plains towns far away from the major rivers, such as Broken Hill, owe their existence to the mineral discoveries made in the decade after 1875, when spectacular deposits of gold, silver, copper and opal were found.
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 ...
Mineral collecting localities of the Broken Hill district, Ian Plimer, Peacock Publications, Hyde Park, S.A., 1977 (ISBN 0909209065) Telling lies for God – reason vs creationism, Ian Plimer, Random House, Sydney, 1994 (ISBN 0-09-182852-X)
2024 New South Wales mayoral elections: Broken Hill [90] Party Candidate Votes % ±% For A Better Broken Hill Tom Kennedy 7,419 70.42 Labor: Darriea Turley 1,707 16.20 Team Broken Hill Dave Gallagher 1,410 13.38 Total formal votes 10,536 96.84 Informal votes 344 3.16 Turnout: 10,880 Two-candidate-preferred result For A Better Broken Hill Tom ...
A variety of mines occur in New South Wales, including Broken Hill Ore Deposit the world's richest zinc and silver mine; Bowdens Silver Deposits near Mudgee; Cadia-Ridgeway Mine 20 km south of Orange; Lake Cowal Campaign and Barrick Gold 125 km sw of Parkes; CSA Mine near Cobar mines copper; Endeavour Mine extracts zinc, is 43 km nw of Cobar ...
Starting in 1915, the concentrates were treated entirely in Australia. The central part of the lode was depleted by 1940 and production was concentrated in the north and south ends. Properties in the 1950s included North Broken Hill Limited, Broken Hill South Limited, The Zinc Corporation Limited, and New Broken Hill Consolidated Limited ...
The only city in the Far West is Broken Hill. Other significant towns are Bourke, Brewarrina, Cobar, Ivanhoe and Wentworth. Ninety-five per cent of the region is uncleared. [4] Major economic activities are mining and extensive pasturing.
Memorial to Albert Morris, "Nature's Friend" Albert Morris (13 August 1886 in Bridgetown, South Australia – 9 January 1939, Broken Hill New South Wales) was an acclaimed Australian botanist, landscaper, ecologist, conservationist and developer of arid-zone revegetation techniques that featured natural regeneration .