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Page 42
... company that the stamp mill and amalgamation treatment would lose much of the gold . Their warnings were ignored . The practice of erecting machinery before testing the ore body was almost a first commandment in Tasmanian mining . Six ...
... company that the stamp mill and amalgamation treatment would lose much of the gold . Their warnings were ignored . The practice of erecting machinery before testing the ore body was almost a first commandment in Tasmanian mining . Six ...
Page 55
... Mining Company had offered the Broken Hill men a controlling interest in the mine if they spent £ 18,750 on the property before fresh calls were made on the present shareholders . Kelly and Orr knew , however , that the company was ...
... Mining Company had offered the Broken Hill men a controlling interest in the mine if they spent £ 18,750 on the property before fresh calls were made on the present shareholders . Kelly and Orr knew , however , that the company was ...
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... mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later , eleven furnaces had ...
... mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later , eleven furnaces had ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later 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 open cut 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 Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc