BHP

By katiefortnum

  • broken hill

    charles rasp, a boundary rider on the mt gipps sheep station believes he was the first to discover the broken hills in western NSW

  • incorperation

    broken hill mining corperation is dissolved and incorperated into broken hill property corparation lemirted BHP begins mining silver, lead and zinc deposits

  • smelting

    smelting commences at port pines in south australia.

  • exporting

    first export of lead to china by BHP

  • IRON DEPOSITS

    leases are obtained over iron knob and iron baron deposits in south australia

  • iron knob

    BHP COMMENCES IRON-ORE MINING AT IRON KNOB

  • STEEL OPERATION

    BHP begins steel works opperation at new castle new south wales