The Peaks of Lyell |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 17
Page 76
... hauled across the ridge from the mine . For weeks the horse teams had pulled the small wagon - loads of coke through the winter rains from Strahan , and now the coke bins were filled at last . Thursday , 25 June , was the long awaited ...
... hauled across the ridge from the mine . For weeks the horse teams had pulled the small wagon - loads of coke through the winter rains from Strahan , and now the coke bins were filled at last . Thursday , 25 June , was the long awaited ...
Page 217
... hauled up his three companions ; and they appeared to be in good condition . These men had sheltered from the smoke in a remote dead end , where compressed air and an air current up an adjacent ore pass had kept the smoke away . Several ...
... hauled up his three companions ; and they appeared to be in good condition . These men had sheltered from the smoke in a remote dead end , where compressed air and an air current up an adjacent ore pass had kept the smoke away . Several ...
Page 271
... hauled the cages to the surface ; a horse hauled the rake of trucks along the tunnel to fresh air ; a steam locomotive hauled the little trucks along the ridge to the ore bins at the top of the haulage tramway ; larger trucks were ...
... hauled the cages to the surface ; a horse hauled the rake of trucks along the tunnel to fresh air ; a steam locomotive hauled the little trucks along the ridge to the ore bins at the top of the haulage tramway ; larger trucks were ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
Copyright | |
23 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill Burnie cage cent copper company's Comstock copper mines cost Creek Crotty deposits diggers dividends drill Dundas Emu Bay Emu Bay railway engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Mt Lyell Mining Mt Lyell railway Mt Read Murray North Lyell pany Pieman port price of copper profit prospectors pyritic smelting Queen River Queenstown rail Renison Bell rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders silver smelters smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town Trent trucks tunnel underground union Victoria west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc