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... shipped from the west coast proved Sprent's criticism . For six months the Great Western Company employed twelve men in cutting tracks , erecting huts , and making dams at Heemskirk . In June 1878 they had sluiced seven or eight tons of ...
... shipped from the west coast proved Sprent's criticism . For six months the Great Western Company employed twelve men in cutting tracks , erecting huts , and making dams at Heemskirk . In June 1878 they had sluiced seven or eight tons of ...
Page 105
... shipped Teepookana probably ranked as the fourth Tasmanian port , and in its last year the copper which it shipped to refineries in the United States and Germany did not fall far short of the value of the city of Hobart's entire exports ...
... shipped Teepookana probably ranked as the fourth Tasmanian port , and in its last year the copper which it shipped to refineries in the United States and Germany did not fall far short of the value of the city of Hobart's entire exports ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. of ore reached Sydney it was shipped back to Strahan and railed to Queenstown , only seventy rail miles from the Primrose mine . Although Sticht experimented with the zinc - lead sulphide from Rosebery and was impressed ...
Geoffrey Blainey. of ore reached Sydney it was shipped back to Strahan and railed to Queenstown , only seventy rail miles from the Primrose mine . Although Sticht experimented with the zinc - lead sulphide from Rosebery and was impressed ...
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