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... later , in the sunny afternoon , a sailor saw high land to the north east , now the peaks of Heemskirk and Zeehan , landmarks on the mountainous west coast of Tasmania . Tasman gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land ...
... later , in the sunny afternoon , a sailor saw high land to the north east , now the peaks of Heemskirk and Zeehan , landmarks on the mountainous west coast of Tasmania . Tasman gave the sailor a pot of arrack rum and called the new land ...
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... later his mates walked around the deposit and found conglomerate rocks - composed of small rocks cemented together - heavily charged with fine gleam- ing grains . Moving swiftly they hammered in corner pegs to a fifty - acre lease ...
... later his mates walked around the deposit and found conglomerate rocks - composed of small rocks cemented together - heavily charged with fine gleam- ing grains . Moving swiftly they hammered in corner pegs to a fifty - acre lease ...
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... later , on 30 April 1922 ; he was sixty five . Sticht had left the United States intending to spend two years in the backwoods mining camp , but he remained for the rest of his life . He became the potentate of the third largest town in ...
... later , on 30 April 1922 ; he was sixty five . Sticht had left the United States intending to spend two years in the backwoods mining camp , but he remained for the rest of his life . He became the potentate of the third largest town in ...
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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