[1] Mount Gipps was the first established station in the Barrier Range area and one of the first west of the Darling River.
[2] The run was taken up in 1866 by McCredie and Cunningham, who occupied an area of 1,400 square miles (3,626 km2) including an outstation at Stephens Creek; the pair later sold it to James McCulloch and Robert Sellar.
[2] In 1883 a boundary rider from Mount Gipps named Charles Rasp discovered outcrops of mineralization on the property at Broken Hill in the Barrier Range, and with two fellow workers, pegged a claim, then at McCulloch's instigation formed the Syndicate of Seven to peg out a further six claims[4] on what turned out to be one of the world's richest lodes of silver, lead and zinc, forming BHP.
The area is arid and most water is pumped from bores, though Stephens Creek runs through the property and has semi-permanent water-holes.
The property is composed of gibber plains, large areas of saltbush and mulga and sandy creek beds surrounded by coolibah trees.