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Accession Number: 68/23
Name: BROKEN HILL ASSOCIATED SMELTERS PTY. LTD.
Sex: Group: Business, organisations
Activity: Metals extractors
Mining companies
Location: Port Pirie
South Australia
Historical Note:
Established in 1889 the Port Pirie smelter was expanded following purchase by Broken Hill Proprietary to supplant the Barrier field's own smelters. The effects of the war and the threat from other Broken Hill companies to establish a rival smelter led in 1915 to the establishment of Broken Hill Associated Smelters, jointly owned by BHP, Broken Hill South and North Broken Hill. Following the sale of BHP's interest in 1925, the smelter was expanded under Collins House control becoming for a while the largest lead smelting works in the world.
Earliest Date: 1885 Latest Date: 1967
Access: Restricted
Quantity: 24 cm. (2 archives boxes)
Description:
Photographs of Port Pirie environs, smelter, waterfront, first load of ore from Broken Hill, pots, furnace, view from the plant, Port Pirie harbour, Port Pirie 1919-1921 (from 'Images of Yesterday' file), Port Pirie waterfront railway wharf, BHAS Port Pirie staff 1928, Directors of BHAS 1969.
Persons: Mawby, Sir Maurice
Shackell, J
Baillieu, M.L.
Green, F.A.
Brookes, W.D.
Organisations: Broken Hill Proprietary Company
Places: Port Pirie
Subjects: Engineering
Mining
Metals extraction
Listed: Not listed
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