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... valley to be about three miles long , winding westerly between two high quartzose mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I named ...
... valley to be about three miles long , winding westerly between two high quartzose mountains with rugged summits . There was a good deal of tea - tree scrub in the bottom of the valley but the slopes of the mountain were barren . I named ...
Page 178
... valley from the smelting valley , there was surprisingly little contact between the two communities . Perhaps a hundred miners thought the cheaper cost of living and brighter lights of Queenstown were worth the two hours spent in ...
... valley from the smelting valley , there was surprisingly little contact between the two communities . Perhaps a hundred miners thought the cheaper cost of living and brighter lights of Queenstown were worth the two hours spent in ...
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... Valley has known increasing prosperity , the mining valley across the ridge has less than a quarter of its popu- lation of 1910. The town of North Lyell is no more ; Linda is little more than a name ; and wind and fire have left ...
... Valley has known increasing prosperity , the mining valley across the ridge has less than a quarter of its popu- lation of 1910. The town of North Lyell is no more ; Linda is little more than a name ; and wind and fire have left ...
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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