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Page 235
... lead and no zinc . Most of this gossan yielded a profit of £ 3 a ton , but the sulphide ore , carrying 27 per cent zinc , was less profitable . It carried less than half as much gold and silver as the gossan and the company received ...
... lead and no zinc . Most of this gossan yielded a profit of £ 3 a ton , but the sulphide ore , carrying 27 per cent zinc , was less profitable . It carried less than half as much gold and silver as the gossan and the company received ...
Page 236
... lead ore from the Hercules mine was being smelted at Zeehan , 31,000 tons of ore assaying more than forty per cent zinc were shipped to Germany , where the zinc was recovered and the lead lost . No matter where the Hercules Com- pany ...
... lead ore from the Hercules mine was being smelted at Zeehan , 31,000 tons of ore assaying more than forty per cent zinc were shipped to Germany , where the zinc was recovered and the lead lost . No matter where the Hercules Com- pany ...
Page 242
... lead from the long - despised dumps . The Rosebery ore was more complex than the Broken Hill ore . The grain size of its constituent minerals was so small and the various minerals were so intimately blended that the zinc and the lead ...
... lead from the long - despised dumps . The Rosebery ore was more complex than the Broken Hill ore . The grain size of its constituent minerals was so small and the various minerals were so intimately blended that the zinc and the lead ...
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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