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Page 331
... Mount Isa because it could not afford the journey by railway and steamer to overseas smelters . Not until the sixth year of production did the company make a profit , and even then the shareholders in New York and Paris and London and ...
... Mount Isa because it could not afford the journey by railway and steamer to overseas smelters . Not until the sixth year of production did the company make a profit , and even then the shareholders in New York and Paris and London and ...
Page 332
... Mount Isa could be a ghost town within another decade . The logic of his report was cold and irrefutable . The ambitious scheme to make Mount Isa a rich mine had been thwarted by the unexpected , the strange behaviour of ores , the ...
... Mount Isa could be a ghost town within another decade . The logic of his report was cold and irrefutable . The ambitious scheme to make Mount Isa a rich mine had been thwarted by the unexpected , the strange behaviour of ores , the ...
Page 353
... Mount Isa Mines ( Sydney , 1960 , 1962 ) which also has a fuller list of some of the sources I used in writing the chapter on Mount Isa . Alan Barnard's biography of T. S. Mort , Visions and Profits ( Melbourne , 1961 ) has a short ...
... Mount Isa Mines ( Sydney , 1960 , 1962 ) which also has a fuller list of some of the sources I used in writing the chapter on Mount Isa . Alan Barnard's biography of T. S. Mort , Visions and Profits ( Melbourne , 1961 ) has a short ...
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