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Page 224
... underground men and fifty open - cut men . Strike and fire had scattered one of the best teams of underground miners that had assembled on any field in the Commonwealth , and Murray knew that he would neither recruit nor retain new men ...
... underground men and fifty open - cut men . Strike and fire had scattered one of the best teams of underground miners that had assembled on any field in the Commonwealth , and Murray knew that he would neither recruit nor retain new men ...
Page 277
... underground mines which had been the chief vaults of copper since the first years of this century . Crown Lyell was closed in 1942 , and two years later expensive transport and the shortage of skilled miners forced the company to close ...
... underground mines which had been the chief vaults of copper since the first years of this century . Crown Lyell was closed in 1942 , and two years later expensive transport and the shortage of skilled miners forced the company to close ...
Page 278
... underground workings above the 200 ' level - timber , mullock and ore - into a payable open cut . The Royal Tharsis mine was the last of the underground mines and employed about a hundred men at the time of its closing . In 1954 , for ...
... underground workings above the 200 ' level - timber , mullock and ore - into a payable open cut . The Royal Tharsis mine was the last of the underground mines and employed about a hundred men at the time of its closing . In 1954 , for ...
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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