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Page 231
... lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting Association - Lord Rosebery was British Prime Minister of the day - and after trench- ing for twelve months , he found the zinc - lead ore body which has been the vault of Rosebery's ...
... lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting Association - Lord Rosebery was British Prime Minister of the day - and after trench- ing for twelve months , he found the zinc - lead ore body which has been the vault of Rosebery's ...
Page 235
... lead and no zinc . Most of this gossan yielded a profit of £ 3 a ton , but the sulphide ore , carrying 27 per cent zinc , was less profitable . It carried less than half as much gold and silver as the gossan and the company received ...
... lead and no zinc . Most of this gossan yielded a profit of £ 3 a ton , but the sulphide ore , carrying 27 per cent zinc , was less profitable . It carried less than half as much gold and silver as the gossan and the company received ...
Page 236
... lead ore from the Hercules mine was being smelted at Zeehan , 31,000 tons of ore assaying more than forty per cent zinc were shipped to Germany , where the zinc was recovered and the lead lost . No matter where the Hercules Com- pany ...
... lead ore from the Hercules mine was being smelted at Zeehan , 31,000 tons of ore assaying more than forty per cent zinc were shipped to Germany , where the zinc was recovered and the lead lost . No matter where the Hercules Com- pany ...
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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