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... pyrites , without finding payable gold . A sample of the pyrites was taken to Strahan and posted to Hobart where the Government Analyst assayed traces of gold , but not in payable quantities . Years later four hundred men would blast ...
... pyrites , without finding payable gold . A sample of the pyrites was taken to Strahan and posted to Hobart where the Government Analyst assayed traces of gold , but not in payable quantities . Years later four hundred men would blast ...
Page 171
... pyrites deposit which had been floated as a copper mine in the 1897 boom . It drove several tun- nels , prospected the surface , and abandoned the mine after finding only traces of copper . In December 1907 , T. B. Moore returned from ...
... pyrites deposit which had been floated as a copper mine in the 1897 boom . It drove several tun- nels , prospected the surface , and abandoned the mine after finding only traces of copper . In December 1907 , T. B. Moore returned from ...
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... pyrites which would never be needed as flux for the North Lyell ore , and sounded out the prospects of buying the surplus ore . Joseph C. Syme , a director of the Mt. Lyell Company and formerly part- owner of the influential Australian ...
... pyrites which would never be needed as flux for the North Lyell ore , and sounded out the prospects of buying the surplus ore . Joseph C. Syme , a director of the Mt. Lyell Company and formerly part- owner of the influential Australian ...
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