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Page 50
... Kelly and Orr were the investors ; and at Zeehan they heard of Mt. Lyell and finally bought the mine . Bowes Kelly was a freckled giant of the Australian outback ; thirty - eight years old , sixteen stone in weight , ginger bearded ...
... Kelly and Orr were the investors ; and at Zeehan they heard of Mt. Lyell and finally bought the mine . Bowes Kelly was a freckled giant of the Australian outback ; thirty - eight years old , sixteen stone in weight , ginger bearded ...
Page 51
... Kelly in mining interests . Balstrup's Manganese Hill was their prize at Zeehan . In 1888 Peter Balstrup , a Danish prospector , had sent samples of green crystals which he found in a trench to W. F. Petterd , a Launces- ton boot ...
... Kelly in mining interests . Balstrup's Manganese Hill was their prize at Zeehan . In 1888 Peter Balstrup , a Danish prospector , had sent samples of green crystals which he found in a trench to W. F. Petterd , a Launces- ton boot ...
Page 95
... Kelly . Rightly or wrongly Crotty was indignant at Kelly's tactics in bartering down the price of the mine from £ 18,750 to £ 5,000 . More than any man Crotty had kept faith in the Iron Blow , and the cheap sale of the mine on which he ...
... Kelly . Rightly or wrongly Crotty was indignant at Kelly's tactics in bartering down the price of the mine from £ 18,750 to £ 5,000 . More than any man Crotty had kept faith in the Iron Blow , and the cheap sale of the mine on which he ...
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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