FAMOUS MINE MAY BE CLOSED DOWN
BROKEN HILL SILVER AND LEAD EXHAUSTED (Received August 27, 6.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, August 27. The chairman of Broken Hill Proprietary (Mr H. G. Darling) announced that the company’s famous silver and lead mine at Broken Hill will probably be closed down in November as the ore bodies have became exhausted. The mine, the richest of its kind in the world, has produced in 53 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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Southland Times, Issue 23599, 29 August 1938, Page 7
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