CLOSING DOWN
FAMOUS MINE AT BROKEN HILL ANNOUNCEMENT BY COMPANY CHAIRMAN WONDERFUL HALF-CENTURY’S YIELD By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The chairman of the Broken Hill Proprietary (Mr H. G. Darling), has announced that the company’s famous silver and lead mine at Broken Hill probably will be closed down in November, as the ore’ bodies have become exhausted. The mine, the richest of its kind in the world,- has produced in fifty-three years, 12,280,000 tons of ore, from which 1,445,000 tons of lead, 189,457,000 ounces of silver, and 603,000 tons of zinc have been extracted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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101CLOSING DOWN Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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