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Page 14
... Heemskirk . Sprent's favourable report roused Tasmanian investors , and they sent three parties to Heemskirk in the following spring . Owen Meredith , a young Tas- manian who had won his spurs in the golden gullies of New Zea- land ...
... Heemskirk . Sprent's favourable report roused Tasmanian investors , and they sent three parties to Heemskirk in the following spring . Owen Meredith , a young Tas- manian who had won his spurs in the golden gullies of New Zea- land ...
Page 15
... Heemskirk survived the shock . There was plenty of genuine tin on the mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and ...
... Heemskirk survived the shock . There was plenty of genuine tin on the mountain slopes , and every week of the following sum- mer some rich find excited the public . In 1879 a rich lode was found on the surface at South Heemskirk , and ...
Page 16
... Heemskirk to the swell of the Southern Ocean , where two - thirds of some leases lay beneath the thundering surf . The boom supplied capital ; in two years , companies spent £ 60,000 exploring the field . At first they had to carry ...
... Heemskirk to the swell of the Southern Ocean , where two - thirds of some leases lay beneath the thundering surf . The boom supplied capital ; in two years , companies spent £ 60,000 exploring the field . At first they had to carry ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Copper Mines cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan Government hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell Mining Lyell open cut Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen Queen River Queenstown R. M. Murray rail Renison Bell reports rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders shipped silver smelters smelting South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour trucks tunnel underground union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc