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Page 235
... zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight . In truth , zinc permeated almost all the ore in the Mt. Read and Hercules mines and these companies had to solve the zinc problem or ...
... zinc was as strong as ever and that only 30,000 tons of three per cent copper ore lay in sight . In truth , zinc permeated almost all the ore in the Mt. Read and Hercules mines and these companies had to solve the zinc problem or ...
Page 236
... zinc . His successor at Zeehan was pessimistic about the prospects of extracting the zinc : " A satisfactory recovery of all four metals in a metallurgical way seems impossible . ” While the richer silver - lead ore from the Hercules ...
... zinc . His successor at Zeehan was pessimistic about the prospects of extracting the zinc : " A satisfactory recovery of all four metals in a metallurgical way seems impossible . ” While the richer silver - lead ore from the Hercules ...
Page 245
... Zinc Company of Australasia had been formed by four Broken Hill zinc producers during the war , when they were unable to sell their concentrates to German and Belgian zinc works . With large stocks of unmarketable concentrate on hand ...
... Zinc Company of Australasia had been formed by four Broken Hill zinc producers during the war , when they were unable to sell their concentrates to German and Belgian zinc works . With large stocks of unmarketable concentrate on hand ...
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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