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Page 34
... sent it on packhorses to Strahan . The Bendigo School of Mines reported that the gossan ( decomposed iron ) contained fifteen ounces of gold to the ton ; the prospectors were jubilant . The Tasmanian government sent its geologist ...
... sent it on packhorses to Strahan . The Bendigo School of Mines reported that the gossan ( decomposed iron ) contained fifteen ounces of gold to the ton ; the prospectors were jubilant . The Tasmanian government sent its geologist ...
Page 58
... sent to Strahan for shipment to Europe , and Peters crossed to Melbourne to complete his report . His final report was the company promoter's dream . “ In the past twenty years , " he testified , " I have never seen a mining and ...
... sent to Strahan for shipment to Europe , and Peters crossed to Melbourne to complete his report . His final report was the company promoter's dream . “ In the past twenty years , " he testified , " I have never seen a mining and ...
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... sent to the directors in London . “ I can say this , " Trent said of Mitchell , “ if you had raked all the madhouses in Europe , you could not have sent me a more excitable and less competent man . ” Mitchell's abuse was more ...
... sent to the directors in London . “ I can say this , " Trent said of Mitchell , “ if you had raked all the madhouses in Europe , you could not have sent me a more excitable and less competent man . ” Mitchell's abuse was more ...
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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