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Page 134
... directors ordered Sticht to inspect the Lyell Tharsis mine and assess its value . Sticht found a pretext to visit the mine when a huge fall of rock killed two miners and disrupted the supply of ore to his smelters ; but the news that he ...
... directors ordered Sticht to inspect the Lyell Tharsis mine and assess its value . Sticht found a pretext to visit the mine when a huge fall of rock killed two miners and disrupted the supply of ore to his smelters ; but the news that he ...
Page 163
... directors ' fees and office expenses but only £ 8,900 on wages , stores , explosives , timber , and salaries . Directors who received high fees for attending occasional meet- ings of the board had a vested interest in keeping their ...
... directors ' fees and office expenses but only £ 8,900 on wages , stores , explosives , timber , and salaries . Directors who received high fees for attending occasional meet- ings of the board had a vested interest in keeping their ...
Page 184
... directors to publish no plans of the mine in their half - yearly report to shareholders . The directors adopted his advice , but not the recommendation to buy the mine . In June 1911 , Jamieson was conversing with a Comstock director in ...
... directors to publish no plans of the mine in their half - yearly report to shareholders . The directors adopted his advice , but not the recommendation to buy the mine . In June 1911 , Jamieson was conversing with a Comstock director 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