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Geoffrey Blainey. 16 THE TOY SMELTERS HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building stood Trent , his forehead beaded with sweat , his tired eyes ...
Geoffrey Blainey. 16 THE TOY SMELTERS HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building stood Trent , his forehead beaded with sweat , his tired eyes ...
Page 149
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
Page 235
... smelters and he chose first the banks of the Ring River and then the Pieman as suitable sites . Alas ! the diamond drill revealed that the zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight ...
... smelters and he chose first the banks of the Ring River and then the Pieman as suitable sites . Alas ! the diamond drill revealed that the zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight ...
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