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... furnaces that were fed with ore from a long overhead tramway . Counting calcining and refining furnaces , Wallaroo had thirty - six furnaces by 1866 and they burned about one - tenth of all the coal shipped from Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) . A ...
... furnaces that were fed with ore from a long overhead tramway . Counting calcining and refining furnaces , Wallaroo had thirty - six furnaces by 1866 and they burned about one - tenth of all the coal shipped from Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) . A ...
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... furnaces . On the evening of 25 June 1896 rain drummed on the iron roof of the smelters as Sticht lit the furnaces and tipped coke and ore and white silica into the flames and waited to tap the incandescent orange slag . That afternoon ...
... furnaces . On the evening of 25 June 1896 rain drummed on the iron roof of the smelters as Sticht lit the furnaces and tipped coke and ore and white silica into the flames and waited to tap the incandescent orange slag . That afternoon ...
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... furnaces and return to London . North Lyell now copied Sticht's pyritic smelting and brought over four small old blast - furnaces from Dry Creek near Adelaide . They were lit in September 1902 and smelted sluggishly . Whereas Sticht ...
... furnaces and return to London . North Lyell now copied Sticht's pyritic smelting and brought over four small old blast - furnaces from Dry Creek near Adelaide . They were lit in September 1902 and smelted sluggishly . Whereas Sticht ...
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