Spending Good Friday in Broken Hill.



Everything was closed,  only a few tourist attractions remained open, therefore I drove to the Miners Memorial at the top of a hill constructed with the discards of the mining operation. Roughly between 800 and 1000 miners have given their lives in this mining industry, security has slowly improved, but it continues to be a risky bussiness.
BHP Billiton is the second biggest mining company in the world, and it started here in Broken Hill, but now it operates many big mines around the world and had an income around 60 billion dollars last year, just behind a Swiss mining organization that had 200 billion dollars profit last year.
The mine in Broken Hill is still operating and there are more subterranean highways under the ground than above, a visit to the Geocenter in town will compliment the history of mining and it combines the art of Pro Hart with a large mural and an instructive video.
I took pictures of the historical buildings in the downtown area, but at lunch time I could not find any place open except McDonalds. Tomorrow I will continue to Cobar.

                                         View of Broken Hill

                                          Line of Load Miners Memorial

                                          Miners Memorial

                                          Miners Memorial

                                          45 kg nugget of pure silver

                                          History of the Silver Tree

                                          Silver Tree

                                          Historic buildings downtown Broken Hill

                                          !800s style building

                                          Historic downtown Broken Hill

                                          A history of hard work and wealth creation

                                          Well preserved history

                                          Mantaining history alive

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