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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.
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. [ 64 ] 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 ...
Broken Hill is a city in western New South Wales, Australia. Broken Hill may also refer to: City of Broken Hill, the local government area containing the Australian city; Broken Hill ore deposit; Broken Hill mine; Broken Hill, a 2010 American film; Kabwe, a city in Zambia formerly known as Broken Hill; Kabwe mine in Zambia formerly called ...
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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]
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.
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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