Dominating the town is the Line of Lode hill with its mountain of mine tailings that dissects Broken Hill. You can drive or walk up to the top via Federation Way, which has a number of points of interest. The Line of Lode Lookout and Miner's Memorial is a dramatic, iconic structure on the edge of the mullock heap. The memorial to the 800 plus miners who lost their lives working on the Broken Hill mines. The building itself is a metaphor for the underground lives of the miners, evoking the damp, claustrophobic underground environment.



The lookout offers panoramic views over the city. Sharing the top is a visitors centre and cafe/restaurant which sadly is all locked up while it awaits someone to take up the lease. Scattered around the top are many items of machinery used in the mines around Broken Hill.

Many people who visit Line of Lode hill question how wise it was to build the cafe and memorial on top of what is effectlively a tailings dump. Early photographs of Broken Hill - not to mention the placement of the old Delprat mine half way up the hill - reveal that there is a natural hill underneath that load of tailings, which might explain why the locals are not expecting the hill to collapse on top of their city any6 time soon.



On the way up to the top are the ruins of the BHP smelter and the old Delprat mine. Its underground access was via the Delprat Shaft and this was to access the old workings of the original BHP mine. It was once re-opened as a tourist mine, the underground tour being of an original BHP mine, and took place on a level 200 meters deep below the surface. It was closed to the public in 2007 when the original mining leases were renewed. The underground tour of an original BHP mine takes place on a level 200 meters deep below the surface.Consolidated Broken Hill is the first mining company to rework the old leases since the closure of Minerals Mining and Metallurgy in the mid 1970s.



The Big Bench is an over-sized park bench that makes even the biggest of people look and feel like a child again. It was constructed back in 2002 as a sculpture on top of the Line of Load hill and has since become a popular tourist attraction. With a size of 2.5 times a normal park bench, most people will need to use something to get up on it. There used to be bricks on the sides to help you up but some spoil-sport has taken them away and put a chain fence around it. Fortunately everyone ignores the fence and still climbs on it.