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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Lead and environmental health in Broken Hill

Bill Balding and Sean Reddan

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 8(12) 97 - 97
Published: 1997

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.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB97038

© NSW Department of Health 1997

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