Qualla: Mount Gipps Station https://qualla.com/mount-gipps-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mount Gipps Station https://qualla.com/mount-gipps-station Mount Gipps Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/mount-gipps-station/ A boundary rider's job was to ride the fences, repair what the drought and the kangaroos had broken, and keep the sheep where they belonged. In September 1883, a German-born rouseabout named Charles Rasp was mustering across a paddock on Mount Gipps Station when a low, dark, broken-backed hill caught his eye. He thought it might be tin. He was wrong. Buried under that unremarkable ridge in the Barrier Range lay one of the richest deposits of silver, lead and zinc the world has ever found. The hill was Broken Hill, and the claim Rasp pegged that spring would become BHP, today one of the largest mining companies on the planet.

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