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Page 174
... 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 unexpected developments in the North Lyell mine ...
... 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 unexpected developments in the North Lyell mine ...
Page 224
... underground men and fifty open - cut men . Strike and fire had scattered one of the best teams of underground miners that had assembled on any field in the Commonwealth , and Murray knew that he would neither recruit nor retain new men ...
... underground men and fifty open - cut men . Strike and fire had scattered one of the best teams of underground miners that had assembled on any field in the Commonwealth , and Murray knew that he would neither recruit nor retain new men ...
Page 264
... underground mining at Mount Lyell . In 1935 , the vintage year , more than half a million tons of ore were mined underground and eleven hundred men worked in the mining department alone . Mt. Lyell was the largest underground ore ...
... underground mining at Mount Lyell . In 1935 , the vintage year , more than half a million tons of ore were mined underground and eleven hundred men worked in the mining department alone . Mt. Lyell was the largest underground ore ...
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