Suburban homes in Broken Hill, New South Wales during rare desert rains.
The megatonnes of lead-zinc-silver under this place founded billion dollar corporations and funded modern Australia. This established an enduring national overreliance on extractive industries. The town itself was prosperous to the 1970s, but declined as consolidation and mechanisation moved local labour out of the mines.
These are not the homes of the mining magnates made rich by this land.
