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Page 93
... Sulphur was the curse of Mt. Lyell . When the big company smelted its pyrite in ten or eleven large furnaces Queenstown found its climate changing . In still weather sulphur from the smelters thickened fogs into invisible pea - soupers ...
... Sulphur was the curse of Mt. Lyell . When the big company smelted its pyrite in ten or eleven large furnaces Queenstown found its climate changing . In still weather sulphur from the smelters thickened fogs into invisible pea - soupers ...
Page 94
... Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow in a day . Bushfires raced through the scrub in successive summers and left blackened hillsides . No fresh ...
... Sulphur , rain and fire swiftly painted a new landscape . Fogs heavily charged with sulphur made green grass and plants yellow in a day . Bushfires raced through the scrub in successive summers and left blackened hillsides . No fresh ...
Page 173
... sulphur from the ore . Five days later Sticht chanced to meet Philip Mackay , young metallurgist from the Sulphide Corporation , Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) , who was inspecting the Mt. Lyell smelters before returning to Illinois . Sticht was ...
... sulphur from the ore . Five days later Sticht chanced to meet Philip Mackay , young metallurgist from the Sulphide Corporation , Newcastle ( N.S.W. ) , who was inspecting the Mt. Lyell smelters before returning to Illinois . Sticht was ...
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