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Page 80
... drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding of the diamond drill hovered near the busy benches ...
... drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding of the diamond drill hovered near the busy benches ...
Page 99
... drills . Working with hammer and steel , miners often had to drill in conglomerate rock so tough that one miner was reputed to have blunted seventy pieces of steel to drill a seven - inch hole . After protesting for months , the North ...
... drills . Working with hammer and steel , miners often had to drill in conglomerate rock so tough that one miner was reputed to have blunted seventy pieces of steel to drill a seven - inch hole . After protesting for months , the North ...
Page 288
... drills and shafts had to go down deeper to explore new ground , it was inevitable that the extent of prospecting and the ... drill holes and £ 200,000 to find a new deposit of copper ; it may never be found , for it may not exist . The ...
... drills and shafts had to go down deeper to explore new ground , it was inevitable that the extent of prospecting and the ... drill holes and £ 200,000 to find a new deposit of copper ; it may never be found , for it may not exist . The ...
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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