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Lead and environmental health in Broken Hill Volume 8 Issue 11-12

Bill Balding, Sean Reddan

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Bill Balding

Sean Reddan

Abstract

The mining city of Broken Hill is in the far west of NSW. Since the early 1880s silver, lead and zinc have been extracted from what was one of the world’s richest ore bodies of its type. Broken Hill has had a major role in developing the nation’s prosperity.