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Geoffrey Blainey. To 24 ROSEBERY : A TALE OF DESPAIR " ODAY the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's ...
Geoffrey Blainey. To 24 ROSEBERY : A TALE OF DESPAIR " ODAY the zinc - lead mines at Rosebery , twenty miles north of Queenstown , support fifteen hundred people in one of the most prosperous mining towns in Australia . Rosebery's ...
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... Rosebery mine . The Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company was floated in Laun- ceston and pack horses carried ore to the Dundas railway station . Mainland smelters recovered the gold and silver . At the close of 1895 the Hercules and ...
... Rosebery mine . The Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company was floated in Laun- ceston and pack horses carried ore to the Dundas railway station . Mainland smelters recovered the gold and silver . At the close of 1895 the Hercules and ...
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... Rosebery and Mt. Read became ghost min- ing towns . Ever since 1898 , when the designing and selection of sites for copper smelters was a fashionable sport among the mining men of Rosebery , the ores of this field had defied every ...
... Rosebery and Mt. Read became ghost min- ing towns . Ever since 1898 , when the designing and selection of sites for copper smelters was a fashionable sport among the mining men of Rosebery , the ores of this field had defied every ...
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