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Page 9
... gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land " van Diemenslandt " . Buried on the slopes of Mt. Heemskirk within sound of the ocean were millions of tons of black magnetite , 66 per cent iron . Millions more outcropped in ...
... gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land " van Diemenslandt " . Buried on the slopes of Mt. Heemskirk within sound of the ocean were millions of tons of black magnetite , 66 per cent iron . Millions more outcropped in ...
Page 118
... gave little or nothing to charity . And by trying to per- suade the widow to enter convent and to deprive her of the luxury to which she had recently been accustomed , he seemed to be de- manding a sacrifice which he himself was not ...
... gave little or nothing to charity . And by trying to per- suade the widow to enter convent and to deprive her of the luxury to which she had recently been accustomed , he seemed to be de- manding a sacrifice which he himself was not ...
Page 256
... gave him a chance to prove his worth . He was acting - manager for a year , supervising the work of nine hundred men before he was officially appointed manager with the title " Engineer - in - Charge of the Mt. Lyell Company's mines ...
... gave him a chance to prove his worth . He was acting - manager for a year , supervising the work of nine hundred men before he was officially appointed manager with the title " Engineer - in - Charge of the Mt. Lyell Company's mines ...
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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