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Broken Hill History – Charles Rasp, the silver king, and his wife who became a countess

Emily McInerney

NEAR the Broken Hill Council Chambers there are busts of the Syndicate of Seven – the men who provided the initial investment in what would become BHP. One of them is Charles Rasp, who, while working as a boundary rider at a sheep station, discovered a rich vein of silver (which he thought was tin) […]

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