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... river which honours his name ; his last journey came to an end near the mouth of the King River , within shouting distance of the present Mt Lyell railway . There he brained his companion with an axe , ate the tastiest morsels , and ...
... river which honours his name ; his last journey came to an end near the mouth of the King River , within shouting distance of the present Mt Lyell railway . There he brained his companion with an axe , ate the tastiest morsels , and ...
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... River and through the gorge . Lynch climbed Mt Jukes while his mates washed £ 1 worth of gold in the Queen River . It wasn't good enough , and the wiry Irishman walked overland to Waratah , where he bought an interest in the ' Catch ...
... River and through the gorge . Lynch climbed Mt Jukes while his mates washed £ 1 worth of gold in the Queen River . It wasn't good enough , and the wiry Irishman walked overland to Waratah , where he bought an interest in the ' Catch ...
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... River Mille Mt.Livingstone Stanley R Parson's Hood Mt. Heemskirk ROAD TO ZEEHAN TRIAL HARBOUR Lutle sands Lagoons Mt.Zeehan Henty River Hell's Gates FERRY 10 15 5 Scale of Miles Mackintosh R Mt. Read Mt. ZEEHAN Mt. Murchison Dundas L ...
... River Mille Mt.Livingstone Stanley R Parson's Hood Mt. Heemskirk ROAD TO ZEEHAN TRIAL HARBOUR Lutle sands Lagoons Mt.Zeehan Henty River Hell's Gates FERRY 10 15 5 Scale of Miles Mackintosh R Mt. Read Mt. ZEEHAN Mt. Murchison Dundas L ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill Burnie cage cent copper company's Comstock copper mines cost Creek Crotty deposits diggers dividends drill Dundas Emu Bay Emu Bay railway engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Mt Lyell Mining Mt Lyell railway Mt Read Murray North Lyell pany Pieman port price of copper profit prospectors pyritic smelting Queen River Queenstown rail Renison Bell rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders silver smelters smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town Trent trucks tunnel underground union Victoria west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc