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Page 129
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
Page 252
... tons of accessible ore . Underground the water level was rising slowly through 450 feet of workings to the floor of the quarry . In all , four and a half million tons of over- burden and four million tons of ore had been mined from the ...
... tons of accessible ore . Underground the water level was rising slowly through 450 feet of workings to the floor of the quarry . In all , four and a half million tons of over- burden and four million tons of ore had been mined from the ...
Page 274
... tons of 1-86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
... tons of 1-86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
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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