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Page 38
... passing of the years , the absence of records , and the frailty of human memory made it impossible for the court to decide the date of the rich discovery with absolute certainty . Even if it had passed judgment on the Karlson ...
... passing of the years , the absence of records , and the frailty of human memory made it impossible for the court to decide the date of the rich discovery with absolute certainty . Even if it had passed judgment on the Karlson ...
Page 116
... passing of the great era of construction - of new town , smelters and railways - reduced Strahan's imports , but the ... passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time it made a small profit but ...
... passing of the great era of construction - of new town , smelters and railways - reduced Strahan's imports , but the ... passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time it made a small profit but ...
Page 229
... passed , only five companies * had paid more than £ 3,000,000 in dividends ; and possibly no industrial company had passed that sum . Mt. Lyell had lost its place , however , as one of the world's great copper mines . Although the ...
... passed , only five companies * had paid more than £ 3,000,000 in dividends ; and possibly no industrial company had passed that sum . Mt. Lyell had lost its place , however , as one of the world's great copper mines . Although 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