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Page 26
... pyrites , without finding payable gold . A sample of the pyrites was taken to Strahan and posted to Hobart where the Government Analyst assayed traces of gold , but not in payable quantities . Years later four hundred men would blast ...
... pyrites , without finding payable gold . A sample of the pyrites was taken to Strahan and posted to Hobart where the Government Analyst assayed traces of gold , but not in payable quantities . Years later four hundred men would blast ...
Page 172
... pyrites , containing 48 per cent sulphur and less than one per cent copper . Dr Robertson , the first expert to realize the value of the copper in the little gold mine , saw the potential sulphur value of the pyrites in the Iron Blow ...
... pyrites , containing 48 per cent sulphur and less than one per cent copper . Dr Robertson , the first expert to realize the value of the copper in the little gold mine , saw the potential sulphur value of the pyrites in the Iron Blow ...
Page 174
... pyrites were being depleted so rapidly that the underground workings of the Blow would soon have to be prepared for mining and at the higher cost of mining underground it would not pay to make Mt. Lyell pyrites into sulphuric acid . The ...
... pyrites were being depleted so rapidly that the underground workings of the Blow would soon have to be prepared for mining and at the higher cost of mining underground it would not pay to make Mt. Lyell pyrites into sulphuric acid . The ...
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