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... yielded little gold in the following decade . An Anglican parson , William B. Clarke , did more than any man to encourage the search for mineral wealth in Tasmania . He had discovered gold in New South Wales in 1841 , and showed speci ...
... yielded little gold in the following decade . An Anglican parson , William B. Clarke , did more than any man to encourage the search for mineral wealth in Tasmania . He had discovered gold in New South Wales in 1841 , and showed speci ...
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... yielded the company £ 170,000 in dividends . In many years they have yielded the company more profit than mining operations and have tided the company through years when the mines worked 280 The Peaks of Lyell.
... yielded the company £ 170,000 in dividends . In many years they have yielded the company more profit than mining operations and have tided the company through years when the mines worked 280 The Peaks of Lyell.
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... yielded in one year . This progress , and the sight of new buildings and new machinery , has so strengthened confidence that middle - aged men scoff at the idea that the lights on the hill will be snuffed in their lifetime . Even if all ...
... yielded in one year . This progress , and the sight of new buildings and new machinery , has so strengthened confidence that middle - aged men scoff at the idea that the lights on the hill will be snuffed in their lifetime . Even if all ...
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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