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Page 208
... fire to spread . The afternoon shift of miners entered the Mt. Lyell mine , confident that at midnight the fire would be extinguished . At half past six the train from Burnie steamed into Queenstown and three distinguished gentlemen ...
... fire to spread . The afternoon shift of miners entered the Mt. Lyell mine , confident that at midnight the fire would be extinguished . At half past six the train from Burnie steamed into Queenstown and three distinguished gentlemen ...
Page 216
... fire had died before the water reached it . Men descended the mine and found remains of a fire , far fiercer and more extensive than they had imagined . The pump house , a build- ing 35 feet by 14 feet , was a heap of ashes . Heavy logs ...
... fire had died before the water reached it . Men descended the mine and found remains of a fire , far fiercer and more extensive than they had imagined . The pump house , a build- ing 35 feet by 14 feet , was a heap of ashes . Heavy logs ...
Page 220
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
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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