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Geoffrey Blainey. 24 Rosebery : A Tale of Despair Today the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's sparkling ...
Geoffrey Blainey. 24 Rosebery : A Tale of Despair Today the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's sparkling ...
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... Rosebery's wealth to this day . McDonald thought the zinc - lead was the source of the gold and he re - floated his association into the Rosebery Gold Mining Company . Back at Mt Read , at Christmas 1894 , wiry Joseph Will , old tin ...
... Rosebery's wealth to this day . McDonald thought the zinc - lead was the source of the gold and he re - floated his association into the Rosebery Gold Mining Company . Back at Mt Read , at Christmas 1894 , wiry Joseph Will , old tin ...
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... Rosebery was essen- tially a speculative venture , and in 1916 he had warned his directors that they were paying too ... Rosebery zinc concentrate at Hobart exceeded the cost of landing an equally rich Broken Hill concentrate there was ...
... Rosebery was essen- tially a speculative venture , and in 1916 he had warned his directors that they were paying too ... Rosebery zinc concentrate at Hobart exceeded the cost of landing an equally rich Broken Hill concentrate there was ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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