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Geoffrey Blainey. To 24 ROSEBERY : A TALE OF DESPAIR ODAY the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's ...
Geoffrey Blainey. To 24 ROSEBERY : A TALE OF DESPAIR ODAY the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's ...
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... Rosebery mine . The Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company was floated in Laun- ceston and pack horses carried ore to the Dundas railway station . Mainland smelters recovered the gold and silver . At the close of 1895 the Hercules and ...
... Rosebery mine . The Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company was floated in Laun- ceston and pack horses carried ore to the Dundas railway station . Mainland smelters recovered the gold and silver . At the close of 1895 the Hercules and ...
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... Rosebery Mines and offered to discuss a merger . Bowes Kelly , always an optimist , rejected the overture . When the Electrolytic Zinc Company renewed its offer some time later , the Rosebery directors were not so confident . They ...
... Rosebery Mines and offered to discuss a merger . Bowes Kelly , always an optimist , rejected the overture . When the Electrolytic Zinc Company renewed its offer some time later , the Rosebery directors were not so confident . They ...
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