Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.

* Broken Hill, New South Wales

* From this Broken Hill

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Initially, Broken Hill mining companies mostly extracted the silver by crushing and gravitation methods by the turn of the century.

This was a part of the overall effort being made in Broken Hill to devise a practical and profitable method to use the newly developed froth flotation process to treat these tailings and recover the zinc.

Flotation, an important mineral separation process, was pioneered in Broken Hill and numerous efforts were being made in various locations around the world to refine this process.

The Delprat-Potter process became the main method used in various companies in Broken Hill, although the Zinc Corporation struggled to gain success using this process.

During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.

" Broken Hill was one of the dreariest places in the world at this time.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

* Broken Hill Type Pb-Zn-Ag, considered to be a class of reworked SEDEX deposits

" Steaming Down Argent Street: A History of the Broken Hill Steam Tramways 1902 – 1926 " ( ISBN 0-909372-13-6 ).

** The Battle of Broken Hill, a train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, in Australia.

The name Silver City was derived from the eponymous Australian mining town at Broken Hill, where the The Zinc Corporation was headquartered.

One of Powell's first visits in his new capacity took him to Broken Hill, Australia, also known as Silver City.

: Kanmare ( Boulia, Queensland ); Tulloun: ( Mount Isa, Queensland ); Andrenjinyi ( Pennefather River, Queensland ), Takkan ( Maryborough, Queensland ); Targan ( Brisbane, Queensland ); Kurreah ( Broken Hill, New South Wales ); Wawi ( Riverina, New South Wales ), Neitee & Yeutta ( Wilcannia, New South Wales ), Myndie ( Melbourne, Victoria ); Bunyip ( Western Victoria ); Arkaroo ( Flinders Ranges, South Australia ); Wogal ( Perth, Western Australia ); Wanamangura ( Laverton, Western Australia ); Kajura ( Carnarvon, Western Australia ); Numereji ( Kakadu, Northern Territory ).

It is located 839 km west of Sydney and 111 kilometres south-east of Broken Hill.

Mutawintji ( previous name: Mootwingee ) is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 878 km west of Sydney and about 130 km north-east of Broken Hill.

* Broken Hill, City of

His attempt to draft the federal resolutions was delayed by a period as acting premier, when he had to deal with the 1892 Broken Hill miners ' strike, and his carriage of a complex electoral reform bill.

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ) ( later BHP Billiton ) was founded by the Syndicate of Seven to mine the ore body of Broken Hill in 1885.

1885: Two years after the Broken Hill Mining Company ( private company ) was established by a syndicate of seven men from the Mt Gipps sheep station, the company was incorporated to become The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (' BHP ').

In 1885, Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ) listed on ASX.

BHP Billiton was created in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited ( BHP ) and the Anglo-Dutch Billiton plc.

In 2001 Billiton Plc merged with the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited ( BHP ) to form BHP Billiton.

Former Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited corporate logo

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, BHP Co. Ltd., BHP, also known as " the Big Australian ", was incorporated in 1885, operating the silver and lead mine at Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia.

Controversy would surround the major shareholder of the mining company, Broken Hill Proprietary ( BHP ), which is now known as BHP Billiton, when it allowed mine waste to be dumped directly in the Ok Tedi River after a tailings dam built by Bechtel was destroyed in a landslide.

** The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, company name 1885-2000

The former Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( now BHP Billiton after merging with Billiton plc ) acquired AI & S in 1935, but has since spun-out their steel division as a separate company, now known as BlueScope Steel.

It was founded as Hummock's Hill in 1901 by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ) as the end of a tramway bringing iron ore from the Middleback Ranges to be used in the lead smelters at Port Pirie as flux.

In April 1984, he and several CSIRO senior staff members, and a senior engineering manager from the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, met to discuss a concept paper.

In August 1987, after delay caused by uncertainties surrounding a potential takeover of their company, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd joined as the fourth, and subsequently foremost, partner.

After attending St Aloysius ' College, Milson's Point ( 1947-1951 ) and Sydney Grammar School ( 1952-1956 ) Malcolm was employed by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ) from 1957-1960, during which time he studied at night for the degree of Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney ( awarded 1962 ).

Kidman was in his middle twenties when he acquired a one-fourteenth share in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine for 10 bullocks worth about £ 4 each.

Meanwhile, the 1990s saw a brief resumption of copper mining near Ruth, this time by Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ).

After the depression in the 1930s, the town and its businesses were largely stagnant until a large open-cut dolomite mine was opened by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company ( BHP ) in the 1950s for use in its steel manufacture at Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula and Port Kembla in New South Wales.

Dampier Mining Co Ltd, a subsidiary of The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited ( BHP ), mined iron ore between 1967 and 1983.

The ad declared she is alive and well and making The Broken Oath, a new movie for his IMP Film Company to be directed by Solter.

Garbage Pail Kids ( also known as " The Garbage Gang " in Australia and New Zealand and later United Kingdom versions, " La Pandilla Basura " Garbage Gang or " Basuritas " in Latin America, " Gang do Lixo " Gang in Brazil, " Sgorbions " in Italy, " Les Crados " Filthies in France and Belgium, and " Die total kaputten Kids " Totally Broken Kids in Germany ) is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts which were immensely popular at the time.

She began her acting career at the age of four in the play Broken Hearts at the Grand Street Theatre on the Lower East Side, as a part of her parents ' Independent Yiddish Art Company.

His first play, Broken Soil ( revised as The Fiddler's House ) ( 1903 ) was performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.

* Padraic Colum's Broken Soil is performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.

2012 will see two new plays performed by Big Brum Theatre in Education Company ; The Broken Bowl and The Edge.

* The Broken Bowl ( 2012 ) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, April 2012