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Page 224
... cost of living , nomadic miners would remain just long enough to earn their fare back to the mainland . Murray therefore suggested that the company should renovate untenanted houses at Gormanston and rent them cheaply , supply firewood ...
... cost of living , nomadic miners would remain just long enough to earn their fare back to the mainland . Murray therefore suggested that the company should renovate untenanted houses at Gormanston and rent them cheaply , supply firewood ...
Page 225
... cost of living in Queenstown was higher than any town in Tasmania . Two years later Queenstown had the cheapest cost of living of the large Tas- manian towns . And a judge of the Arbitration Court , on studying the statistics , remarked ...
... cost of living in Queenstown was higher than any town in Tasmania . Two years later Queenstown had the cheapest cost of living of the large Tas- manian towns . And a judge of the Arbitration Court , on studying the statistics , remarked ...
Page 275
... cost of mining at the very time when a substantial reduction in costs was essential for survival . Obviously the mine had to be mechanized to handle the greater tonnage of rock and handle it efficiently . The directors , not deterred by ...
... cost of mining at the very time when a substantial reduction in costs was essential for survival . Obviously the mine had to be mechanized to handle the greater tonnage of rock and handle it efficiently . The directors , not deterred by ...
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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