The Town That Created Australia’s Richest Company

Broken Hill is one of Australia’s most remarkable mining towns, but its greatest legacy may be the company it created. In this documentary, we explore how a chance discovery by Charles Rasp in 1883 led to the formation of BHP, a company that would grow from an isolated outback mine into one of the world’s largest resource giants. From silver booms and miners’ strikes to steelmaking and global expansion, this is the incredible story of how a broken ridge in the Australian desert changed the nation’s future forever.