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... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
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... 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 square , sluiced to a depth of less than four feet ...
... 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 square , sluiced to a depth of less than four feet ...
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... gold - bearing pyrite . The gold soon petered out , but the manager estimated that 1,700 tons of gossan , carrying one and a half ounces of gold and eighteen ounces of silver to the ton , were definitely in sight . The directors were ...
... gold - bearing pyrite . The gold soon petered out , but the manager estimated that 1,700 tons of gossan , carrying one and a half ounces of gold and eighteen ounces of silver to the ton , were definitely in sight . The directors were ...
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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