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... open cut , nearing exhaustion , about 1917 Diamond drill , boring for zinc at Rosebery , 1917 The Kakariki , steaming through Hell's Gates into the open sea Twenty - ton truck and mechanical shovel , West ... open cut : a corner of the mine.
... open cut , nearing exhaustion , about 1917 Diamond drill , boring for zinc at Rosebery , 1917 The Kakariki , steaming through Hell's Gates into the open sea Twenty - ton truck and mechanical shovel , West ... open cut : a corner of the mine.
Page 189
... open cut . There were fewer accidents , more shelter and warmth at the smelters ; and in the first fifteen years there were no strikes and few unionists . At the mines industrial relations were not so cordial . Miners in the open cut ...
... open cut . There were fewer accidents , more shelter and warmth at the smelters ; and in the first fifteen years there were no strikes and few unionists . At the mines industrial relations were not so cordial . Miners in the open cut ...
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... open cut . Miners began to break the ore , and men shovelled it into small motor trucks which ran along an old rail- way formation to the Royal Tharsis shaft . To September 1935 , West Lyell produced 60,000 tons of 1-86 per cent copper ...
... open cut . Miners began to break the ore , and men shovelled it into small motor trucks which ran along an old rail- way formation to the Royal Tharsis shaft . To September 1935 , West Lyell produced 60,000 tons of 1-86 per cent copper ...
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