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Smelters at the Day Dream mine 1885. This was the first smelting plant constructed in the Broken Hill area by the Barrier Ranges Silver Mining Association.
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The giant Broken Hill silver-lead-zinc deposit was discovered in the context of a sequence of earlier discoveries in the Barrier Ranges of western New South Wales. The early discoveries were rich silver veins, suitable for mining by individual prospectors or small groups, but before they were worked out and abandoned they attracted larger investors...
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... heat. A dispute over the claim delayed mining until August 1884 when about a dozen men worked a quarry on a 1.5m thick lode that assayed about 500 ozs of silver per ton. 34 The mine was then acquired by the Barrier Ranges Silver Mining Association, which built the first smelter in the region at the adjacent Hen and Chickens claim in June 1885 (Fig. 4). By 1886 the smelter works consisted of two La Monte water jacket furnaces with a capacity of 30 tons per day, as well as a refinery with six muffles and wind furnaces for producing silver bars. 35 Production from the Day Dream mine between 1884 and 1889 totalled 8,487 tons, with additional ore mined intermittently at later dates. 36 ...
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The giant Broken Hill silver-lead-zinc deposit was discovered in the context of a sequence of earlier discoveries in the Barrier Ranges of western New South Wales. These early discoveries were of rich silver veins, suitable for mining by individual prospectors or small groups, but before they were worked out and abandoned they attracted larger inve...
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... More than 30 silver-bearing lodes were discovered at Thackaringa and the narrow (<2m) veins of galena, siderite and quartz were worked in small quarries and shallow shafts (Fig. 1). All ore was bagged and taken by bullock dray 320 km to Terowie in South Australia, then by train to Port Adelaide and shipped overseas for processing (McQueen, 2016). In 1879 John Stokie established a store at Umberumberka, 19 km north of Thackaringa. ...
... A number of the larger mines that had been established by syndicates involving prospectors and local frontier entrepreneurs, such as Julius Nickel, John Stockie, Richard Green and Wilcannia watchmaker Aimé Garot, were formed into companies and floated to attract public investors (Kearns, 1992;McQueen, 2016). ...
The giant Broken Hill silver-lead-zinc deposit was discovered in the context of a sequence of earlier discoveries in the Barrier Ranges of western New South Wales. These early discoveries were of rich silver veins, suitable for mining by individual prospectors or small groups, but before they were worked out and abandoned they attracted larger investors and companies. Importantly, they demonstrated the possibility of economic mining in this remote and inhospitable region. The pioneering prospectors were commonly frontier entrepreneurs. Their efforts initiated the Barrier Ranges silver-lead field and set the scene for discovery and development of the Broken Hill mine. Development thus followed a ‘bootstrap’ model, typical of many Australian mining fields in the nineteenth century.
Keywords: ‘bootstrap’, development, lead, mining, silver.
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