The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningThree decades after publication, The Rush that Never Ended provides an account of an important part of Australia's economic history. New chapters tell the story of the changes in mining in the last 20 years. |
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Page 256
... Zinc Corporation had survived its ordeal through the grit of its financiers and the steady march of techniques , and in 1912 the ordinary shareholders got the first dividend . By then the company had got itself a mine , realizing that ...
... Zinc Corporation had survived its ordeal through the grit of its financiers and the steady march of techniques , and in 1912 the ordinary shareholders got the first dividend . By then the company had got itself a mine , realizing that ...
Page 257
... zinc floated . He had separated them by the simple trick of altering the surface of the particles of lead . Whereas all the earlier flo- tation processes were blind processes that floated all the metals , his process could select the ...
... zinc floated . He had separated them by the simple trick of altering the surface of the particles of lead . Whereas all the earlier flo- tation processes were blind processes that floated all the metals , his process could select the ...
Page 269
... zinc from lead . For Australian mines the smelting of zinc was even more difficult than lead in 1914 , and was not solved until long after the war . The zinc produced in Broken Hill's flotation works was in the form of a moist powdery ...
... zinc from lead . For Australian mines the smelting of zinc was even more difficult than lead in 1914 , and was not solved until long after the war . The zinc produced in Broken Hill's flotation works was in the form of a moist powdery ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 45 |
Golds Conquest | 57 |
Copyright | |
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