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Page 159
... hundred shareholders . Many shareholders were humble work- ing people who owned £ 5 , £ 10 or £ 20 of shares and worked in foundries , meat - markets , ironworks , shipyards , breweries , ware- houses and roller mills . At the other end ...
... hundred shareholders . Many shareholders were humble work- ing people who owned £ 5 , £ 10 or £ 20 of shares and worked in foundries , meat - markets , ironworks , shipyards , breweries , ware- houses and roller mills . At the other end ...
Page 160
... hundreds of thousands of bags of ore . The crack of doom had sounded so suddenly that the steamer Kamona was on its way to Kelly Basin with five hundred tons of coke for the smelters , while hundreds of tons of Zeehan ironstone lay on ...
... hundreds of thousands of bags of ore . The crack of doom had sounded so suddenly that the steamer Kamona was on its way to Kelly Basin with five hundred tons of coke for the smelters , while hundreds of tons of Zeehan ironstone lay on ...
Page 198
Geoffrey Blainey. union at Gormanston numbered seven hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the mem- bership of the Gormanston A.M.A. At the mining camps of North Lyell and Linda a rival medi- cal ...
Geoffrey Blainey. union at Gormanston numbered seven hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the mem- bership of the Gormanston A.M.A. At the mining camps of North Lyell and Linda a rival medi- cal ...
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A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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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