TUCKED away on the edge of Broken Hill, on the extreme west of Allendale Street, is White’s Mineral and Mining Museum, a rustic wonderland to which words can do no justice.

A simulated mine, constructed with original timbers from the old Zinc Corporation shafts and stopes, the walls and ceilings plastered with a glittering blackness; it’s as close as you can get to going underground, without ...