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Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters There was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building stood ...
Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters There was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building stood ...
Page 156
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
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... smelters and smelt its ore at Zeehan . P. S. Morse , a Newcastle metallurgist , visited Germany and predicted that certain dezincing processes might prove economical at Zeehan . The Tasmanian Smelting Com- pany was eager to merge with ...
... smelters and smelt its ore at Zeehan . P. S. Morse , a Newcastle metallurgist , visited Germany and predicted that certain dezincing processes might prove economical at Zeehan . The Tasmanian Smelting Com- pany was eager to merge with ...
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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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