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... later , in the sunny afternoon , a sailor saw high land to the north east , now the peaks of Heemskirk and Zeehan , landmarks on the mountainous west coast of Tasmania . Tasman gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land ...
... later , in the sunny afternoon , a sailor saw high land to the north east , now the peaks of Heemskirk and Zeehan , landmarks on the mountainous west coast of Tasmania . Tasman gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land ...
Page 25
... later his mates walked around the deposit and found conglomerate rocks - composed of small rocks cemented together - heavily charged with fine gleam- ing grains . Moving swiftly they hammered in corner pegs to a fifty - acre lease ...
... later his mates walked around the deposit and found conglomerate rocks - composed of small rocks cemented together - heavily charged with fine gleam- ing grains . Moving swiftly they hammered in corner pegs to a fifty - acre lease ...
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... later the editor announced with pride that he " was accosted in the street by an insolent Chinese , who was promptly told to make himself scarce " . Two years later , after the sulphur had shrivelled the gardens , the A.M.A. convened a ...
... later the editor announced with pride that he " was accosted in the street by an insolent Chinese , who was promptly told to make himself scarce " . Two years later , after the sulphur had shrivelled the gardens , the A.M.A. convened a ...
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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