biography
pronunciation:
[rahsp]
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| lived:
| (1846–1907)
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| biography:
| Prospector, born in Stuttgart, SW Germany. Illness forced him to emigrate to Australia in 1869, and he became a boundary rider in New South Wales, at a time when considerable discoveries of tin were being made. He pegged the very first claim on the ‘Broken Hill’ in 1883. Two years later further tests indicated not tin but rich silver ore. The Broken Hill Proprietory Company was formed, and he became a rich man. Now known as BHP Ltd, the company is the largest industrial company in Australia, with wealth founded on lead, coal, iron ore, and silver. |
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