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Page 206
... fire would burn itself out . As they believed that the fire would not spread to the wet , heavy timbers which supported the roof of the drives , the time - keeper merely sent an urgent mes- sage to the mine manager at Gormanston . When ...
... fire would burn itself out . As they believed that the fire would not spread to the wet , heavy timbers which supported the roof of the drives , the time - keeper merely sent an urgent mes- sage to the mine manager at Gormanston . When ...
Page 208
... fire to spread . The afternoon shift of miners entered the Mt. Lyell mine , confident that at midnight the fire would be extinguished . At half past six the train from Burnie steamed into Queenstown and three distinguished gentlemen ...
... fire to spread . The afternoon shift of miners entered the Mt. Lyell mine , confident that at midnight the fire would be extinguished . At half past six the train from Burnie steamed into Queenstown and three distinguished gentlemen ...
Page 219
... fire to the wooden building without fear of being detected . Once the pump house was ablaze and the pumps ceased to work , water would rise slowly in the bottom of the mine , cause some anxiety , but give the men time to climb up the ...
... fire to the wooden building without fear of being detected . Once the pump house was ablaze and the pumps ceased to work , water would rise slowly in the bottom of the mine , cause some anxiety , but give the men time to climb up 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