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Page 135
... profit on the deal . If the Mt. Lyell directors cherished that hope they were soon disillusioned ; for they made a profit of only £ 9,187 from the mine . The indignant shareholders had the better bargain . The failure of the South ...
... profit on the deal . If the Mt. Lyell directors cherished that hope they were soon disillusioned ; for they made a profit of only £ 9,187 from the mine . The indignant shareholders had the better bargain . The failure of the South ...
Page 139
... profit of £ 180,000 in the forthcoming year . But the British shareholders had been deceived so often that they were ... profit was in sight . He complained that everything exceeded the estimates except the actual profit , which fell ...
... profit of £ 180,000 in the forthcoming year . But the British shareholders had been deceived so often that they were ... profit was in sight . He complained that everything exceeded the estimates except the actual profit , which fell ...
Page 146
... profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious crisis , and it re- quired ruthless retrenchment and all the ingenuity of the com- pany's staff to make less than half of the profit of a few years past . The Mt. Lyell ore body was ...
... profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious crisis , and it re- quired ruthless retrenchment and all the ingenuity of the com- pany's staff to make less than half of the profit of a few years past . The Mt. Lyell ore body was ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Creek Crotty Crotty's diggers dividends Dixon Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire floated furnaces gold goldfield Gormanston gossan Gould gully hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell North Lyell Company open cut ounces paid pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery rush Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting South Sticht Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc