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Page 44
... mill echoed down the valley as the clattering stampers crushed their first ore from the mine . Gold diggers hurried up the gully to watch the little mill work- ing . In the noisy battery house they watched the man shovel ore into a ...
... mill echoed down the valley as the clattering stampers crushed their first ore from the mine . Gold diggers hurried up the gully to watch the little mill work- ing . In the noisy battery house they watched the man shovel ore into a ...
Page 134
... mill to treat a hundred tons of ore a day . On the last day of November 1899 the clatter of crusher and jigs had risen above the speeches in the rambling iron mill on the hillside , and in the following month the first sample of copper ...
... mill to treat a hundred tons of ore a day . On the last day of November 1899 the clatter of crusher and jigs had risen above the speeches in the rambling iron mill on the hillside , and in the following month the first sample of copper ...
Page 248
... mills were so inefficient that one enterprising metallurgist later worked the tailings below the mill at Crotty for a handsome profit . The mills were scrapped and pyritic smelting remained the only economic method of recovering copper ...
... mills were so inefficient that one enterprising metallurgist later worked the tailings below the mill at Crotty for a handsome profit . The mills were scrapped and pyritic smelting remained the only economic method of recovering copper ...
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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