Corporate Body

Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (1885 - 2000)

From
1885
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
November 2000
Functions
Metallurgy, Mineralogy or mining and Resources
Alternative Names
  • BHP Ltd.
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited was incorporated in Victoria in 1885. Originally the Company was established to mine zinc, lead and silver at Broken Hill in New South Wales. Later the Company moved into steel making and oil and gas exploration. In November 2000 the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited became known as BHP Limited.

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 1885 - 2000 Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited
       2000 - 2001 BHP Limited
             2001 - BHP Billiton Limited

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Archival resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library

  • Bass Strait oil and gas records assembled by Dr Tony Krins, 1964 - 1987, BSAR03890; Krins, Anthony (Tony); Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Papers of Graeme M. Clark, 1944-2012 [manuscript], 1944 - 2012, MS 8696; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty Ltd - Records, 1889 - 1957, 69/6; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty Ltd - Records, 1885 - 1967, 68/23; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Broken Hill South Ltd - Records, 1924 - 1971, 75/93; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Anon, Bass Strait: long history, bright future. (Melbourne: Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd, 2009), 6 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS17334.pdf. Details
  • Blainey, Geoffrey, The steel master: a life of Essington Lewis (South Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia, 1971), 217 pp. Details
  • Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Seventy-five years of B.H.P. development in industry, 1885-1960. (Melbourne: Broken Hill Proprietary Company, 1960), 192 pp. Details
  • Johnston-Liik, E.M.; Liik, George and Ward, R.G., A Measure of Greatness: the Origins of the Australian Iron and Steel Industry (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), 376 pp. Details
  • Kearns, R. H. B., Broken Hill 1883 - 1893: discovery and development (Broken Hill, N.S.W.: Broken Hill Historical Society, 1973), 64 pp. Details
  • Kearns, R. H. B., Broken Hill, 1894 - 1914: volume 2, the uncertain years (Broken Hill, N.S.W.: Broken Hill Historical Society, 1974), 72 pp. Details
  • Kearns, R. H. B., Broken Hill, volume 3, 1915 - 1939: new horizons (Broken Hill, N.S.W.: Broken Hill Historical Society, 1975), 76 pp. Details
  • Kearns, R. H. B., Broken Hill volume 4, 1940 - 1983: the first century (Broken Hill, N.S.W.: Broken Hill Historical Society, 1976), 96 pp. Details
  • Thomson, Peter; Macklin, Robert, The Big Fella: The rise of BHP Biliton (North Sydney, New South Wales: William Heinemann, 2009), 518 pp, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31715216. Details
  • Trengove, Alan, "What's good for Australia ... !": the story of BHP (Stanmore, N.S.W: Cassell, 1975), 236 pp. Details

Films

  • Cox, Cyril [director, photographer]; Stacey, Bill [editing]; McConnachie, David [sound recording], Wild cats and white horses: Newsreel on the beginning of Australia's oil industry from 1966, YouTube, Produced by Cinesound, Esso Standard Oil (Australia) Limited, Australia, 1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-DXKpyLjt8. Details

Journal Articles

Newspaper Articles

  • Anon, 'The obstetrician at the birth of an industry', Connection - ExxonMobil, 136 (2020), 4-5. Details
  • Esso Australia, 'In Action! - Esso Exploration's first offshore well is spudded-in in Gippsland Basin', Esso News, 3 (7) (1965), 1-2. Details

Resources

See also

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