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Page 150
... close the plant for the usual spell , he went around the building , saying : " Put your tools away , boys , there'll be no work here again . " The men walked through the fog to the town that night , certain that Queenstown was doomed ...
... close the plant for the usual spell , he went around the building , saying : " Put your tools away , boys , there'll be no work here again . " The men walked through the fog to the town that night , certain that Queenstown was doomed ...
Page 164
... close study of British capital in Australia and implied that Mt. Lyell had attracted more British capital than any Aus- tralian mining field , with the exception of the Western Australian goldfields . British investors held an ...
... close study of British capital in Australia and implied that Mt. Lyell had attracted more British capital than any Aus- tralian mining field , with the exception of the Western Australian goldfields . British investors held an ...
Page 249
... close of the year it was producing copper at about £ 100 a ton and selling it for little more than £ 80 . Mt. Lyell faced extinc- tion . On 24 March 1921 the directors announced that unless the price of copper improved or working costs ...
... close of the year it was producing copper at about £ 100 a ton and selling it for little more than £ 80 . Mt. Lyell faced extinc- tion . On 24 March 1921 the directors announced that unless the price of copper improved or working costs ...
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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