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Page 71
... hauled more than one and a quarter tons but they dragged up several thousand tons of machinery in eighteen months . Boilers , blast stoves , rails , steel girders , engines , six - ton locomotive , 46,000 firebricks , 116 heavy cast ...
... hauled more than one and a quarter tons but they dragged up several thousand tons of machinery in eighteen months . Boilers , blast stoves , rails , steel girders , engines , six - ton locomotive , 46,000 firebricks , 116 heavy cast ...
Page 80
... hauled to the surface contained shining specks of pyrite . The excited manager rushed the sample to an assayer and deep was his disappointment when he learned that the ore carried less than one per cent of copper . To add to his worries ...
... hauled to the surface contained shining specks of pyrite . The excited manager rushed the sample to an assayer and deep was his disappointment when he learned that the ore carried less than one per cent of copper . To add to his worries ...
Page 261
... hauled the cages to the surface ; a horse hauled the rake of trucks along the tunnel to fresh air ; a steam locomotive hauled the little trucks along the ridge to the ore bins at the top of the haulage tram ; larger trucks were filled ...
... hauled the cages to the surface ; a horse hauled the rake of trucks along the tunnel to fresh air ; a steam locomotive hauled the little trucks along the ridge to the ore bins at the top of the haulage tram ; larger trucks were filled ...
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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