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Page 120
... timber for the mine , built a tramway two miles along the timbered slope of Mount Lyell only to learn that the Blocks Company , which owned the timber rights , refused to lease the land . Likewise , a director who was the solicitor for ...
... timber for the mine , built a tramway two miles along the timbered slope of Mount Lyell only to learn that the Blocks Company , which owned the timber rights , refused to lease the land . Likewise , a director who was the solicitor for ...
Page 121
... the rail- way line at Linda that the ore had to be unloaded from the buckets and carted to the railway trucks . Moreover , the buckets were too 122 small to carry timber and machinery , and so The Reign of Extravagance 121.
... the rail- way line at Linda that the ore had to be unloaded from the buckets and carted to the railway trucks . Moreover , the buckets were too 122 small to carry timber and machinery , and so The Reign of Extravagance 121.
Page 180
... timbers that supported the workings . By dint of careful mining and costly timbering , the company mined more than 150,000 tons of clay before the first fatal accident occurred . One morning in July 1907 the timber , clay and slurry ...
... timbers that supported the workings . By dint of careful mining and costly timbering , the company mined more than 150,000 tons of clay before the first fatal accident occurred . One morning in July 1907 the timber , clay and slurry ...
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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