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Page 53
... million pounds of investors ' money was flung into this outpost of Melbourne's financial empire before August 1891 , and probably another million followed in the next twenty years . Only a fraction of this sum , perhaps £ 500,000 , was ...
... million pounds of investors ' money was flung into this outpost of Melbourne's financial empire before August 1891 , and probably another million followed in the next twenty years . Only a fraction of this sum , perhaps £ 500,000 , was ...
Page 129
... million tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares ...
... million tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares ...
Page 276
... million to 2.8 million tons and huge dumps of mullock had buried many of the gullies that ran down from the mine . The new machinery which enabled the company to remove a huge tonnage of overburden has transformed the open cut . The ...
... million to 2.8 million tons and huge dumps of mullock had buried many of the gullies that ran down from the mine . The new machinery which enabled the company to remove a huge tonnage of overburden has transformed the open cut . 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