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Page 31
... feet . The diggers used blankets and mercury to attract the gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty- feet ...
... feet . The diggers used blankets and mercury to attract the gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty- feet ...
Page 63
... feet down , and the vein was now thirty feet wide ! The directors began to live in hopes that the silver might supply enough money to carry out the early stages of their construction programme . When the bonanza was exhausted , they ...
... feet down , and the vein was now thirty feet wide ! The directors began to live in hopes that the silver might supply enough money to carry out the early stages of their construction programme . When the bonanza was exhausted , they ...
Page 126
... feet by nineteen feet outside the hearth , each with a square brick chim- ney ninety feet high , were ready for the fires to be kindled , and two more chimneys were rising within the wooden scaffolding . An electric travelling crane ...
... feet by nineteen feet outside the hearth , each with a square brick chim- ney ninety feet high , were ready for the fires to be kindled , and two more chimneys were rising within the wooden scaffolding . An electric travelling crane ...
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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