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Page 157
... smelters a heaven beside their mines . The Proprietary led in smelting as in mining , and Schlapp from Colorado created the largest metal smelters in the land with fifteen furnaces and nearly a thousand men . Smaller companies built ...
... smelters a heaven beside their mines . The Proprietary led in smelting as in mining , and Schlapp from Colorado created the largest metal smelters in the land with fifteen furnaces and nearly a thousand men . Smaller companies built ...
Page 222
... smelters is always delicate and often calami- tous , but Sticht was confident of his huge 150 - ton blast 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 ...
... smelters is always delicate and often calami- tous , but Sticht was confident of his huge 150 - ton blast 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 ...
Page 279
... smelters . Known as the Broken Hill Associated Smelters they became the world's largest , producing one - tenth of the world's lead and much of its silver . They devised a new blast furnace and probed new processes , and at Port Pirie ...
... smelters . Known as the Broken Hill Associated Smelters they became the world's largest , producing one - tenth of the world's lead and much of its silver . They devised a new blast furnace and probed new processes , and at Port Pirie ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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