Corporate Body
Minerals Separation Ltd (1900s - )
- From
- 1900s
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Functions
- Metallurgy and Mineralogy or mining
- Location
- Broken Hill, New South Wales
Summary
In the first five years of the twentieth century, Minerals Separation Ltd, a small London-based company, was involved in developing a revolutionary technique of ore extraction. Its work, along with that of others, emerged in response to a most serious metallurgical crisis faced by any Australian mining field in the nineteenth century. Essentially the problem was that companies involved in mining silver, lead and zinc found that the deeper they mined the lode, the more difficult these metals were to extract and separate.
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Minerals Separation Ltd - Records, 1895 - 1933, 90/93; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Books
- Scillio, Mark; McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt,Tim, A Brief Guide to the Records of Minerals Separation Ltd (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1992), 29 pp. Details
Resources
- A Brief Guide to the Records of Minerals Separation Ltd, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/msl_gui.htm. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-479362. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 16 July 2002, Last modified: 16 March 2006