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Page 50
... Kelly and Orr were the investors ; and at Zeehan they heard of Mt. Lyell and finally bought the mine . Bowes Kelly was a generous optimist of the Australian outback ; thirty - eight years old , sixteen stone in weight , ginger bearded ...
... Kelly and Orr were the investors ; and at Zeehan they heard of Mt. Lyell and finally bought the mine . Bowes Kelly was a generous optimist of the Australian outback ; thirty - eight years old , sixteen stone in weight , ginger bearded ...
Page 51
... Kelly in mining interests . Balstrup's Manganese Hill was their prize at Zeehan . In 1888 Peter Balstrup , a Danish prospector , had sent samples of green crystals which he found in a trench to W. F. Petterd , a Launces- ton boot ...
... Kelly in mining interests . Balstrup's Manganese Hill was their prize at Zeehan . In 1888 Peter Balstrup , a Danish prospector , had sent samples of green crystals which he found in a trench to W. F. Petterd , a Launces- ton boot ...
Page 95
... Kelly . Rightly or wrongly Crotty was indignant at Kelly's tactics in was bartering down the price of the mine from £ 18,750 to £ 5,000 . More than any man Crotty had kept faith in the Iron Blow , and the cheap sale of the mine on which ...
... Kelly . Rightly or wrongly Crotty was indignant at Kelly's tactics in was bartering down the price of the mine from £ 18,750 to £ 5,000 . More than any man Crotty had kept faith in the Iron Blow , and the cheap sale of the mine on which ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Creek Crotty Crotty's diggers dividends Dixon Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire floated furnaces gold goldfield Gormanston gossan Gould gully hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell North Lyell Company open cut ounces paid pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery rush Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting South Sticht Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc