The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) (later BHP Billiton) is founded by the Syndicate of Seven in 1885 to mine the ore body of Broken Hill, the largest and richest of its kind in the world.
Boundary rider Charles Rasp, who patrols the Mount Gipps fences, had discovered what he thought was tin in 1883, but the samples proved to be silver and lead.
