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... Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow in a day . Bushfires raced through the scrub in successive summers and left blackened hillsides . No fresh ...
... Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow in a day . Bushfires raced through the scrub in successive summers and left blackened hillsides . No fresh ...
Page 172
... sulphur as fuel to smelt the copper . The waste sulphur floated up the furnace chimneys , blackening the landscape in summer and brewing grimy , yellow fogs in winter . In 1900 , when seven or eight furnaces were in con- tinuous blast ...
... sulphur as fuel to smelt the copper . The waste sulphur floated up the furnace chimneys , blackening the landscape in summer and brewing grimy , yellow fogs in winter . In 1900 , when seven or eight furnaces were in con- tinuous blast ...
Page 173
... sulphur from the ore . Five days later Sticht chanced to meet Philip Mackay , young metallurgist from the Sulphide Corporation , Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) , who was inspecting the Mt. Lyell smelters before returning to Illinois . Sticht was ...
... sulphur from the ore . Five days later Sticht chanced to meet Philip Mackay , young metallurgist from the Sulphide Corporation , Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) , who was inspecting the Mt. Lyell smelters before returning to Illinois . Sticht was ...
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