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Page 48
... Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and more than 24,000 acres , embrac- ing 370 ...
... Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and more than 24,000 acres , embrac- ing 370 ...
Page 51
... Zeehan . William Orr , who was a pacemaker in the Broken Hill march on Zeehan , was so impressed by the manganese boulders which capped Balstrup's lode that he and Kelly formed Balstrup's Man- ganese Hill Silver Mining Company and ...
... Zeehan . William Orr , who was a pacemaker in the Broken Hill march on Zeehan , was so impressed by the manganese boulders which capped Balstrup's lode that he and Kelly formed Balstrup's Man- ganese Hill Silver Mining Company and ...
Page 239
... Zeehan . Meanwhile the town of Zeehan was sinking fast . At an election in 1913 there were 1,200 absentee voters on the roll . The towns- men knew that unless the smelters merged with the Rosebery mines , the few remaining Zeehan mines ...
... Zeehan . Meanwhile the town of Zeehan was sinking fast . At an election in 1913 there were 1,200 absentee voters on the roll . The towns- men knew that unless the smelters merged with the Rosebery mines , the few remaining Zeehan mines ...
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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