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Page 35
... less than five miles away , the maximum reward was three ten - acre leases . Karlson believed that the Mt. Lyell mine was less than five miles from Lynch's mine and that the discoverers were consequently entitled to thirty , not forty ...
... less than five miles away , the maximum reward was three ten - acre leases . Karlson believed that the Mt. Lyell mine was less than five miles from Lynch's mine and that the discoverers were consequently entitled to thirty , not forty ...
Page 80
... less than one per cent of copper . To add to his worries , the drillers could not retrieve an £ 800 diamond drill - bit from the hole and his com- pany had to bear the loss . Work ceased and the lease passed into the hands of the Mt ...
... less than one per cent of copper . To add to his worries , the drillers could not retrieve an £ 800 diamond drill - bit from the hole and his com- pany had to bear the loss . Work ceased and the lease passed into the hands of the Mt ...
Page 129
... less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging them down from £ 13 13s . in April to £ 5 18s . in August . The market value of the mine fell almost £ 2,000,000 ...
... less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging them down from £ 13 13s . in April to £ 5 18s . in August . The market value of the mine fell almost £ 2,000,000 ...
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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