NEAR the Broken Hill Council Chambers there are busts of the Syndicate of Seven - the men who provided the initial investment in what would become BHP.

One of them is Charles Rasp, who, while working as a boundary rider at a sheep station, discovered a rich vein of silver (which he thought was tin) on a hill in the Barrier Ranges known as the “Broken Hill” in 1883.

Mr Rasp’s name is commem...