Mines in the Spinifex: The Story of Mount Isa MinesMarco, a young loyalist peasant-soldier, falls in love with Norma, a rebel spy, during the Spanish Civil War. They struggle against a powerful enemy blockade that is preventing the delivery of food in a battle that could change the course of the war. |
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... companies were impoverished . Sudden inrushes of water in the mine hastened the fall of a company which had previously created Russia's greatest mining enterprise . Then low metal prices and Mount Isa's grave metallurgical problems ...
... companies were impoverished . Sudden inrushes of water in the mine hastened the fall of a company which had previously created Russia's greatest mining enterprise . Then low metal prices and Mount Isa's grave metallurgical problems ...
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... company did not solve the problem which vexed scores of important British mining companies - how to manage efficiently a mine on the other side of the globe . The chairman confessed this when he told shareholders in 1888 that a great ...
... company did not solve the problem which vexed scores of important British mining companies - how to manage efficiently a mine on the other side of the globe . The chairman confessed this when he told shareholders in 1888 that a great ...
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... mining companies , producing 50,800 tons of copper ( compared with Mount Elliott's 27,000 ) , 21,000 ounces of gold , and 381,000 ounces of silver . Its more permanent achievement was its part in creating the metal fabricating company ...
... mining companies , producing 50,800 tons of copper ( compared with Mount Elliott's 27,000 ) , 21,000 ounces of gold , and 381,000 ounces of silver . Its more permanent achievement was its part in creating the metal fabricating company ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Copper of the Kalkadoons | 18 |
The Duchess and the Hermit | 28 |
Copyright | |
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