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Page 53
... Melbourne financiers began to file their insolvencies . The Zeehan boom collapsed late in 1891 and it marked the end of this extravagant era in Australian history . The 1880's were a decade of tremendous progress , railway expansion ...
... Melbourne financiers began to file their insolvencies . The Zeehan boom collapsed late in 1891 and it marked the end of this extravagant era in Australian history . The 1880's were a decade of tremendous progress , railway expansion ...
Page 62
... Melbourne alive . The company's financial plight was to be redeemed by a lucky discovery . Peters had only been at the mine a week when , standing near the old battery with Otto Schlapp , he noticed a seam of grey , mud - like ore in a ...
... Melbourne alive . The company's financial plight was to be redeemed by a lucky discovery . Peters had only been at the mine a week when , standing near the old battery with Otto Schlapp , he noticed a seam of grey , mud - like ore in a ...
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... Melbourne racehorse owner and chairman of Lyell Blocks , who publicly suggested in February 1900 that every large mine on the Lyell field should amalgamate into one huge company . " If it matures , " wrote the Melbourne Argus , " it ...
... Melbourne racehorse owner and chairman of Lyell Blocks , who publicly suggested in February 1900 that every large mine on the Lyell field should amalgamate into one huge company . " If it matures , " wrote the Melbourne Argus , " it ...
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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