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Page 236
... zinc . His successor at Zeehan was pessimistic about the prospects of extracting the zinc : " A satisfactory recovery of all four metals in a metallurgical way seems impossible . " While the richer silver - lead ore from the Hercules ...
... zinc . His successor at Zeehan was pessimistic about the prospects of extracting the zinc : " A satisfactory recovery of all four metals in a metallurgical way seems impossible . " While the richer silver - lead ore from the Hercules ...
Page 245
... Zinc Company of Australasia had been formed by four Broken Hill zinc producers during the war , when they were unable to sell their concentrates to German and Belgian zinc works . With large stocks of unmarketable concentrate on hand ...
... Zinc Company of Australasia had been formed by four Broken Hill zinc producers during the war , when they were unable to sell their concentrates to German and Belgian zinc works . With large stocks of unmarketable concentrate on hand ...
Page 246
... zinc works at Zeehan , and hundreds of people clung to the town waiting for construction to begin . They were some- what consoled when they heard that zinc ore would still be railed from Rosebery and Williamsford to the site of the ...
... zinc works at Zeehan , and hundreds of people clung to the town waiting for construction to begin . They were some- what consoled when they heard that zinc ore would still be railed from Rosebery and Williamsford to the site of the ...
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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