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Page 21
... south , the Heemskirk tin field employed another 150 men . At the foot of the crescent , south - east of Heemskirk , the King River gold- field was begrudging gold to fifty diggers . Down this crescent came the discoverers of Mt. Lyell ...
... south , the Heemskirk tin field employed another 150 men . At the foot of the crescent , south - east of Heemskirk , the King River gold- field was begrudging gold to fifty diggers . Down this crescent came the discoverers of Mt. Lyell ...
Page 134
... South Tharsis mine by force . South Tharsis was a plucky Melbourne company , which num- bered among its directors old Con Lynch , the gold - digger of 1881 , who had made his fortune on the goldfields of Western Australia . Just below ...
... South Tharsis mine by force . South Tharsis was a plucky Melbourne company , which num- bered among its directors old Con Lynch , the gold - digger of 1881 , who had made his fortune on the goldfields of Western Australia . Just below ...
Page 194
... South Lyell mine ; J. B. Wood , the secretary , was a Gormanston barber ; and the senior committee - man , John Earle , was a blacksmith at the South Lyell mine . In Sticht's opinion these outsiders had no right to interfere in the ...
... South Lyell mine ; J. B. Wood , the secretary , was a Gormanston barber ; and the senior committee - man , John Earle , was a blacksmith at the South Lyell mine . In Sticht's opinion these outsiders had no right to interfere in the ...
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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