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Page 53
... Melbourne financiers began to file their insolvencies . The Zeehan boom collapsed late in 1891 and it marked the end of this extravagant era in Australian history . The 1880's were a decade of tremendous progress , railway expansion ...
... Melbourne financiers began to file their insolvencies . The Zeehan boom collapsed late in 1891 and it marked the end of this extravagant era in Australian history . The 1880's were a decade of tremendous progress , railway expansion ...
Page 132
... Melbourne racehorse owner and chairman of Lyell Blocks , who publicly suggested in February 1900 that every large mine on the Lyell field should amalgamate into one huge company . " If it matures , " wrote the Melbourne Argus , " it ...
... Melbourne racehorse owner and chairman of Lyell Blocks , who publicly suggested in February 1900 that every large mine on the Lyell field should amalgamate into one huge company . " If it matures , " wrote the Melbourne Argus , " it ...
Page 169
... Melbourne mining agents . When Sticht wanted to experiment with a hundred tons of ore from the Primrose mine he made his request to Alfred Mellor , the secretary , in Melbourne . Mellor informed Knox Schlapp , which wired the request in ...
... Melbourne mining agents . When Sticht wanted to experiment with a hundred tons of ore from the Primrose mine he made his request to Alfred Mellor , the secretary , in Melbourne . Mellor informed Knox Schlapp , which wired the request in ...
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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