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Page 109
... became Australia's most profitable railway and paid £ 4 on every £ 1 share in its first nine years . Its chance success fired Reid with an incurable optimism for mining railways ; and he promoted the Tarrawingee line at Broken Hill ...
... became Australia's most profitable railway and paid £ 4 on every £ 1 share in its first nine years . Its chance success fired Reid with an incurable optimism for mining railways ; and he promoted the Tarrawingee line at Broken Hill ...
Page 143
... became the greatest copper mine in the United States - a mine that was greater than twenty North Lyells . Back at Crotty twelve men picketed the works while MacArthur analysed the failure of the furnaces . Believing that Trent's ...
... became the greatest copper mine in the United States - a mine that was greater than twenty North Lyells . Back at Crotty twelve men picketed the works while MacArthur analysed the failure of the furnaces . Believing that Trent's ...
Page 282
... became an important product and by 1938 the company was producing 50,000 tons annually for export to the fertilizer works in Melbourne . When war was declared , and raw sulphur from Italy became unprocur- able and imports from the ...
... became an important product and by 1938 the company was producing 50,000 tons annually for export to the fertilizer works in Melbourne . When war was declared , and raw sulphur from Italy became unprocur- able and imports from 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