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Page 129
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
Page 274
... tons of 1.86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
... tons of 1.86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
Page 282
... tons of sulphur lay in huge rain- washed dumps at Queenstown and Strahan , awaiting transport to the mainland . The Mt. Lyell railway and inadequate shipping were the obstacles . A locomotive can haul 110 tons along most of the railway ...
... tons of sulphur lay in huge rain- washed dumps at Queenstown and Strahan , awaiting transport to the mainland . The Mt. Lyell railway and inadequate shipping were the obstacles . A locomotive can haul 110 tons along most of the railway ...
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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