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Page 52
... capital to make its wealth known to the world . " " Where is this Iron Blow ? " he asked . After Bryant had pointed ... capital became so shaky that its shares were offered for nothing with a bonus to those who would take them . Western ...
... capital to make its wealth known to the world . " " Where is this Iron Blow ? " he asked . After Bryant had pointed ... capital became so shaky that its shares were offered for nothing with a bonus to those who would take them . Western ...
Page 58
... capital to produce one ton of copper ? English capital and English capital alone , could save the company . In March 1893 , in preparation for courting the British investor , the directors liquidated the old company and formed the Mt ...
... capital to produce one ton of copper ? English capital and English capital alone , could save the company . In March 1893 , in preparation for courting the British investor , the directors liquidated the old company and formed the Mt ...
Page 162
... capital " in all the Lyell companies , less than a third of this huge sum had actually been invested in the mines of the field . This is clear once the mask of paid up capital is torn away . On a careful reckoning , investors and banks ...
... capital " in all the Lyell companies , less than a third of this huge sum had actually been invested in the mines of the field . This is clear once the mask of paid up capital is torn away . On a careful reckoning , investors and banks ...
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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