page_title: Broken Hill
section_title: Heritage listings
hierarchical_section_title: Broken Hill / Heritage listings
caption_attribution_description: English: Broken Hill Trades Hall
context_page_description: Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway and the Silver City Highway, in the Barrier Range. It is 315 m above sea level, with a hot desert climate, and an average rainfall of 235 mm. The closest major city is Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, which is more than 500 km to the southwest and linked via route A32.
  The town is prominent in Australia's mining, industrial relations and economic history after the discovery of silver ore led to the opening of various mines, thus establishing Broken Hill's recognition as a prosperous mining town well into the 1990s. Despite experiencing a slowing economic situation into the late 1990s and 2000s, Broken Hill itself was listed on the National Heritage List in 2015 and remains Australia's longest running mining town.
  Broken Hill, historically considered one of Australia's boomtowns, has been referred to as "The Silver City", and less commonly as the "Oasis of the West", and the "Capital of the Outback".
context_section_description: Broken Hill has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
  227 Argent Street: Palace Hotel
  258–260 Argent Street: Broken Hill Post Office
  404–408 Argent Street: Walter Sully Emporium
  Broken Hill railway: Broken Hill railway station
  Buck Street: Broken Hill Mosque
  Cobalt Street: Wesley Uniting Church
  160 Crystal Street: Seppelts Warehouse
  East of corner of Gaffney and Oxide Streets, Proprietary Square: First BHP Offices Chimney Ruin
  Hynes Street: 1915 Picnic Train Attack and White Rocks Reserve.
  232 Lane Street: "The Old Convent" St Joseph's Convent
  34 Sulphide Street: Broken Hill Trades Hall
  165 Wolfram Street: Broken Hill Synagogue
  Unnamed road, 20 km out: Day Dream Smelter
caption: Broken Hill Trades Hall
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