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... five miles apart and lying in a new moon crescent . In the north , at the top of the crescent , lay Mt. Bischoff , the richest tin mine in the world , and Waratah , a town of 1,300 people . Twenty- five miles south - west lay the heart ...
... five miles apart and lying in a new moon crescent . In the north , at the top of the crescent , lay Mt. Bischoff , the richest tin mine in the world , and Waratah , a town of 1,300 people . Twenty- five miles south - west lay the heart ...
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... five miles from any other similar mine . If the new find was less than five miles away , the maximum reward was three ten - acre leases . Karlson believed that the Mt. Lyell mine was less than five miles from Lynch's mine and that the ...
... five miles from any other similar mine . If the new find was less than five miles away , the maximum reward was three ten - acre leases . Karlson believed that the Mt. Lyell mine was less than five miles from Lynch's mine and that the ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. for every five tons of ore . In 1953 , nearly five tons of waste rock were mined for every five tons of ore , and £ 478,000 was spent on mining waste rock alone . Within eight years the annual output of mined rock had ...
Geoffrey Blainey. for every five tons of ore . In 1953 , nearly five tons of waste rock were mined for every five tons of ore , and £ 478,000 was spent on mining waste rock alone . Within eight years the annual output of mined rock had ...
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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