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Page 87
... town past the smelters to the foot of the haulage , where the trucks were hauled by cable over the hill to the Mt. Lyell mine , a quarter of a mile from Gormanston . This was the company's private line , and it carried only ore , mining ...
... town past the smelters to the foot of the haulage , where the trucks were hauled by cable over the hill to the Mt. Lyell mine , a quarter of a mile from Gormanston . This was the company's private line , and it carried only ore , mining ...
Page 284
... town of 5,500 people , with a score of hotels , banks , and halls that would have graced any provincial city in Australia . In the following decade , the smelters and quarries dispensed with hundreds of men , and the town's population ...
... town of 5,500 people , with a score of hotels , banks , and halls that would have graced any provincial city in Australia . In the following decade , the smelters and quarries dispensed with hundreds of men , and the town's population ...
Page 285
... town vanishes in the bustle of the twentieth century . While the Queen Valley has known increasing prosperity , the mining valley across the ridge has less than a quarter of its popu- lation of 1910. The town of North Lyell is no more ...
... town vanishes in the bustle of the twentieth century . While the Queen Valley has known increasing prosperity , the mining valley across the ridge has less than a quarter of its popu- lation of 1910. The town of North Lyell is no more ...
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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