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charles rasp, a boundary rider on the mt gipps sheep station believes he was the first to discover the broken hills in western NSW
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broken hill mining corperation is dissolved and incorperated into broken hill property corparation lemirted BHP begins mining silver, lead and zinc deposits
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smelting commences at port pines in south australia.
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first export of lead to china by BHP
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leases are obtained over iron knob and iron baron deposits in south australia
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BHP COMMENCES IRON-ORE MINING AT IRON KNOB
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BHP begins steel works opperation at new castle new south wales