The Peaks of Lyell |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 89
Page 138
Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the TH main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building ...
Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the TH main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building ...
Page 149
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
Page 235
... smelters and he chose first the banks of the Ring River and then the Pieman as suitable sites . Alas ! the diamond drill revealed that the zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight ...
... smelters and he chose first the banks of the Ring River and then the Pieman as suitable sites . Alas ! the diamond drill revealed that the zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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