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Page 11
... Linda and looked west to the low mountain ridge , to be scarred and honeycombed in time with tunnels , shafts and open cuts , min- ing copper on a two - mile front . It was 16 February 1862 . " I found the valley to be about three miles ...
... Linda and looked west to the low mountain ridge , to be scarred and honeycombed in time with tunnels , shafts and open cuts , min- ing copper on a two - mile front . It was 16 February 1862 . " I found the valley to be about three miles ...
Page 121
... Linda , a mile downhill from the North Lyell mine , the directors decided to build the branch line , which , according to their advertisements in the London press , would pass within a stone's throw of every im- portant mine on the ...
... Linda , a mile downhill from the North Lyell mine , the directors decided to build the branch line , which , according to their advertisements in the London press , would pass within a stone's throw of every im- portant mine on the ...
Page 226
... Linda was a rough , insanitary shanty town , and Murray is said to have expressed his determination to wipe it off the map . The miners , however , were reluctant to leave Linda , for it was nearer the mines and sheltered from the gales ...
... Linda was a rough , insanitary shanty town , and Murray is said to have expressed his determination to wipe it off the map . The miners , however , were reluctant to leave Linda , for it was nearer the mines and sheltered from the gales ...
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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