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Page 12
... prospecting dish than with a plough . In 1859 , the year of the Eldon Ranges excitement , he began the first of his long , lonely expeditions into the wild gorges at the back of his farm . He always returned , weary and exhausted ...
... prospecting dish than with a plough . In 1859 , the year of the Eldon Ranges excitement , he began the first of his long , lonely expeditions into the wild gorges at the back of his farm . He always returned , weary and exhausted ...
Page 40
... prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had scattered through the island . The Association needed efficient organization , expert advice , and ...
... prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had scattered through the island . The Association needed efficient organization , expert advice , and ...
Page 231
... prospecting tools and a bag of oatmeal on his back and battled five miles north to thick forest at the foot of Mt. Black . There he found alluvial gold and boulders of zinc lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting ...
... prospecting tools and a bag of oatmeal on his back and battled five miles north to thick forest at the foot of Mt. Black . There he found alluvial gold and boulders of zinc lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting ...
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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