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... Dundas might not offer prizes as rich as Broken Hill ? Investors who had already earned £ 2,100,000 from one mine at Broken Hill thought the silver age was dawning and began to rush Zeehan shares in January . Almost every day ...
... Dundas might not offer prizes as rich as Broken Hill ? Investors who had already earned £ 2,100,000 from one mine at Broken Hill thought the silver age was dawning and began to rush Zeehan shares in January . Almost every day ...
Page 53
... Dundas proved to be a last hope for investors working in an economic system already quivering under the impact of its own excesses . Perhaps a million pounds of investors ' money was flung into this outpost of Melbourne's financial ...
... Dundas proved to be a last hope for investors working in an economic system already quivering under the impact of its own excesses . Perhaps a million pounds of investors ' money was flung into this outpost of Melbourne's financial ...
Page 81
... Dundas was called Lyell Dundas . Later , a Victorian Lyell , a Wallaroo Lyell , a Chillagoe Lyell , and a Ballarat Lyell , mining in widely scattered parts of Australia , cashed in on a name that was magic to investors in 1897-98 . Like ...
... Dundas was called Lyell Dundas . Later , a Victorian Lyell , a Wallaroo Lyell , a Chillagoe Lyell , and a Ballarat Lyell , mining in widely scattered parts of Australia , cashed in on a name that was magic to investors in 1897-98 . Like ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc