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... pegged three quarter - acre claims in the gully below the Iron Blow , and hurried back to Howard's Plains to collect stores and mining implements . A dozen diggers followed them back to Chamouni and pegged claims and pitched tents in ...
... pegged three quarter - acre claims in the gully below the Iron Blow , and hurried back to Howard's Plains to collect stores and mining implements . A dozen diggers followed them back to Chamouni and pegged claims and pitched tents in ...
Page 26
... pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the Cooneys and Karlson sank holes in the creeks . Above all , when the ...
... pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the Cooneys and Karlson sank holes in the creeks . Above all , when the ...
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... pegged mineral district in Australia . Of the copper fields near Lyell , the Dora field caused most excitement in the summer of the boom . Prospectors wore a rough track from Lyell to the back of Mt. Sedgwick , where shallow trenches ...
... pegged mineral district in Australia . Of the copper fields near Lyell , the Dora field caused most excitement in the summer of the boom . Prospectors wore a rough track from Lyell to the back of Mt. Sedgwick , where shallow trenches ...
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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