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Page 181
... hundred men , had just closed its brand- new mill after a brief trial run . The Blocks manager hired a care- taker to guard the mill , and removed all the trucks and rails from the mine . The creek of yellow mill - tailings that flowed ...
... hundred men , had just closed its brand- new mill after a brief trial run . The Blocks manager hired a care- taker to guard the mill , and removed all the trucks and rails from the mine . The creek of yellow mill - tailings that flowed ...
Page 190
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
Page 278
... hundred tons of siliceous flux , ceased production in 1949 , fifty - two years after its discovery . It yielded more than 4,500,000 tons of ore , averaging 5 ยท 5 per cent copper and carrying 252,000 tons of copper in all . Nineteen out ...
... hundred tons of siliceous flux , ceased production in 1949 , fifty - two years after its discovery . It yielded more than 4,500,000 tons of ore , averaging 5 ยท 5 per cent copper and carrying 252,000 tons of copper in all . Nineteen out ...
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