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Page 129
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
... tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares , dragging ...
Page 274
... tons of 1.86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
... tons of 1.86 per cent copper , of which 16,000 tons had been mined in the short - lived underground workings . Great riches were not expected of the new mine . It might pro- long the company's life for three or four years and they would ...
Page 275
... tons of pure copper - far more than any other mine on the field had produced in a year . In these war years , when ... tons of low - grade ore , averaging about 0.7 per cent copper and sufficient to last for twenty years . To secure this ...
... tons of pure copper - far more than any other mine on the field had produced in a year . In these war years , when ... tons of low - grade ore , averaging about 0.7 per cent copper and sufficient to last for twenty years . To secure this ...
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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