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Page 123
... cent copper ore in No. I tunnel , 18.6 per cent copper in a crosscut off No. 2 tunnel , and 27.9 per cent copper in No. 3 tunnel . In reports to the press the manager and directors wildly exaggerated the wealth of their mine ...
... cent copper ore in No. I tunnel , 18.6 per cent copper in a crosscut off No. 2 tunnel , and 27.9 per cent copper in No. 3 tunnel . In reports to the press the manager and directors wildly exaggerated the wealth of their mine ...
Page 251
... cent of the miners worked on Saturdays . In December the underground men voted unanimously that the system of working on alternate Saturdays be retained , and it operated for years . The cost of liv- ing in the district fell and made ...
... cent of the miners worked on Saturdays . In December the underground men voted unanimously that the system of working on alternate Saturdays be retained , and it operated for years . The cost of liv- ing in the district fell and made ...
Page 274
... cent copper lay above the Russell tunnel - enough to begin a shallow open cut . Miners began to break the ore , and men shovelled it into small motor trucks which ran along an old rail- way formation to the Royal Tharsis shaft . To ...
... cent copper lay above the Russell tunnel - enough to begin a shallow open cut . Miners began to break the ore , and men shovelled it into small motor trucks which ran along an old rail- way formation to the Royal Tharsis shaft . To ...
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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