Maurice Mawby interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording]

Sir Maurice Mawby, speaks of his early interest in mining and metallurgy; the Chapman Commission into the health of Broken Hill miners; Zinc Corporation; Captain's Flat mine; New Broken Hill Consolidated; W.S. Robinson; 1892 strike; Francis and John Govett; W.L. Baillieu; Lyall B. Robinson; G.C. Freeman; Jim Keast; Sir George Fisher; the flotation process; Potter, Delprat, de Bavay; Jim Lyster; exploration; Broken Hill Associated Smelters; Weipa; Broken Hill as a town; labour in Broken Hill; industrial relations; Barrier Industrial Council (BIC); Amalgamated Miners Association (AMA); Barrier Workers Industrial Union (BWI) - Blue Whiskers; Paddy O'Neill; amenities in Broken Hill; Albert Morris; trees and conservation; exploration and World War II; copper and bauxite; aluminium works at Bill Bay; Commonwealth Minerals Committee; King Island shcelite; titanium; formation of Consolidated Zinc Corporation; government assistance; Riotinto; Sir Val Duncan; Russell Madigan; overseas capital in development; Kaiser; Tom Price; assistance to families; Bureau of Mineral Resources; Sir Harold Raggatt; international companies in Australia; Japanese interests; proliferation of mining companies; support from Australian banks; future economic development in Australia and the mining boom.