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... lived for weeks on mouldy flour , green bacon and damp tea ; others were not so fortunate . The majority of the men who went came from Victoria or New Zealand where gold was the backbone of mining and the alpha and omega of mineral ...
... lived for weeks on mouldy flour , green bacon and damp tea ; others were not so fortunate . The majority of the men who went came from Victoria or New Zealand where gold was the backbone of mining and the alpha and omega of mineral ...
Page 86
... lived in small houses , tents , and iron huts , packed tight where the offices , slag dump , and sub- station stand to - day . But Penghana was doomed from birth ; it squatted on the company's lease almost in the morning shadow of the ...
... lived in small houses , tents , and iron huts , packed tight where the offices , slag dump , and sub- station stand to - day . But Penghana was doomed from birth ; it squatted on the company's lease almost in the morning shadow of the ...
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... lived . The answer to the query , " Have you ridden on Ben Leach's coach ? " was often the password into the North Lyell mine , and those who answered " yes " were acknowledged as Malmsbury men and given work . The mine naturally became ...
... lived . The answer to the query , " Have you ridden on Ben Leach's coach ? " was often the password into the North Lyell mine , and those who answered " yes " were acknowledged as Malmsbury men and given work . The mine naturally became ...
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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