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... south , the Heemskirk tin field employed another 150 men . At the foot of the crescent , south - east of Heemskirk , the King River gold- field was begrudging gold to fifty diggers . Down this crescent came the discoverers of Mt. Lyell ...
... south , the Heemskirk tin field employed another 150 men . At the foot of the crescent , south - east of Heemskirk , the King River gold- field was begrudging gold to fifty diggers . Down this crescent came the discoverers of Mt. Lyell ...
Page 80
... South Lyell mine announced that his company was also heir to the riches of the Iron Blow . He began to sink a shaft in a narrow gully , hidden from the top benches of the Mt. Lyell mine by a small spur . Down went the shaft , deeper ...
... South Lyell mine announced that his company was also heir to the riches of the Iron Blow . He began to sink a shaft in a narrow gully , hidden from the top benches of the Mt. Lyell mine by a small spur . Down went the shaft , deeper ...
Page 134
... South Tharsis mine by force . South Tharsis was a plucky Melbourne company , which num- bered among its directors old Con Lynch , the gold - digger of 1881 , who had made his fortune on the goldfields of Western Australia . Just below ...
... South Tharsis mine by force . South Tharsis was a plucky Melbourne company , which num- bered among its directors old Con Lynch , the gold - digger of 1881 , who had made his fortune on the goldfields of Western Australia . Just below ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill Burnie cent copper company's Comstock copper copper mines cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan Government hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc