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... field that has yielded £ 174 million at present mineral prices . In its scope , however , this story is more than a company history . It is the story of a wild region of moun- tains and mines - some mines rich , many poor . It is the ...
... field that has yielded £ 174 million at present mineral prices . In its scope , however , this story is more than a company history . It is the story of a wild region of moun- tains and mines - some mines rich , many poor . It is the ...
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... field had actually raised more than £ 70,000 from shareholders . And while more than £ 5,000,000 was listed as " paid up capital " in all the Lyell companies , less than a third of this huge sum had actually been invested in the mines ...
... field had actually raised more than £ 70,000 from shareholders . And while more than £ 5,000,000 was listed as " paid up capital " in all the Lyell companies , less than a third of this huge sum had actually been invested in the mines ...
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... field from the sentence of death , and made Mt. Lyell a highly profitable field of investment . By 1906 the field had repaid the total sum of money it had absorbed , and by 1920 the field had repaid the investment at least twice over ...
... field from the sentence of death , and made Mt. Lyell a highly profitable field of investment . By 1906 the field had repaid the total sum of money it had absorbed , and by 1920 the field had repaid the investment at least twice over ...
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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