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Page 47
... silver . Clothes tat- tered , a month's stubble on his face , he staggered back to civiliza- tion with specimens of galena that contained up to one hundred ounces of silver to the ton . But Zeehan was not the old story of lucky miners ...
... silver . Clothes tat- tered , a month's stubble on his face , he staggered back to civiliza- tion with specimens of galena that contained up to one hundred ounces of silver to the ton . But Zeehan was not the old story of lucky miners ...
Page 48
... silver boom to proclaim its similarity to the Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and ...
... silver boom to proclaim its similarity to the Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and ...
Page 49
... silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might not offer ...
... silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might not offer ...
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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