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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 230
... smelters . North Lyell hoped for the exhaustion of the Mount Lyell mine , and that was nearer than they knew . People in the affected towns snatched every rumour . If the com- panies merged , one railway and one port and one smelting ...
... smelters . North Lyell hoped for the exhaustion of the Mount Lyell mine , and that was nearer than they knew . People in the affected towns snatched every rumour . If the com- panies merged , one railway and one port and one smelting ...
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... smelters at low prices . Why not buy a smelter to pro- duce bullion from the concentrate of the friendly mines ? Large smelting works at Dapto , fifty - six miles south of Sydney , were idle , so they formed the Australian Smelting ...
... smelters at low prices . Why not buy a smelter to pro- duce bullion from the concentrate of the friendly mines ? Large smelting works at Dapto , fifty - six miles south of Sydney , were idle , so they formed the Australian Smelting ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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