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Page 12
... prospecting dish than with a plough . In 1859 , the year of the Eldon Ranges excitement , he began the first of his long , lonely expeditions into the wild gorges at the back of his farm . He always returned , weary and exhausted ...
... prospecting dish than with a plough . In 1859 , the year of the Eldon Ranges excitement , he began the first of his long , lonely expeditions into the wild gorges at the back of his farm . He always returned , weary and exhausted ...
Page 40
... prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had scattered through the island . The Association needed efficient organization , expert advice , and ...
... prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had scattered through the island . The Association needed efficient organization , expert advice , and ...
Page 288
... prospecting and the rate of discovery should be far less than in the palmy days of the field . As only one company survives to prospect an area that once received the attention of forty , and as this company has to spend as much as ...
... prospecting and the rate of discovery should be far less than in the palmy days of the field . As only one company survives to prospect an area that once received the attention of forty , and as this company has to spend as much as ...
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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