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Page 94
... fire at Gormanston , and a charcoal burner , two Assyrian hawkers , and three miners were burned to death . Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow ...
... fire at Gormanston , and a charcoal burner , two Assyrian hawkers , and three miners were burned to death . Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow ...
Page 216
... fire had died before the water reached it . Men descended the mine and found remains of a fire , far fiercer and more extensive than they had imagined . The pump house , a build- ing 35 feet by 14 feet , was a heap of ashes . Heavy logs ...
... fire had died before the water reached it . Men descended the mine and found remains of a fire , far fiercer and more extensive than they had imagined . The pump house , a build- ing 35 feet by 14 feet , was a heap of ashes . Heavy logs ...
Page 220
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
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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