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... Queenstown 198 By courtesy of T. Nankivell , Queenstown From Mt. Lyell bare hills dip to the reduction works , slag dump , and the Mt. Lyell Company's offices 199 A post - war suburb of Queenstown stretches up the Queen Valley towards ...
... Queenstown 198 By courtesy of T. Nankivell , Queenstown From Mt. Lyell bare hills dip to the reduction works , slag dump , and the Mt. Lyell Company's offices 199 A post - war suburb of Queenstown stretches up the Queen Valley towards ...
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... Queenstown won by a run . The manager had quietly backed the Queenstown team for a heavy wager and instructed his miners to lose . This transpired in a subsequent lawsuit . The site of the Proprietary's main shaft can still be seen on ...
... Queenstown won by a run . The manager had quietly backed the Queenstown team for a heavy wager and instructed his miners to lose . This transpired in a subsequent lawsuit . The site of the Proprietary's main shaft can still be seen on ...
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... Queenstown people who had seen Linda thought it was the end of the world , and scores of smelter - hands who lived in Queenstown for five or ten years never once set eyes on the mines that gave them copper . This isolation was clearly ...
... Queenstown people who had seen Linda thought it was the end of the world , and scores of smelter - hands who lived in Queenstown for five or ten years never once set eyes on the mines that gave them copper . This isolation was clearly ...
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