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Page 150
... close the plant for the usual spell , he went around the building , saying : " Put your tools away , boys , there'll be no work here again . " The men walked through the fog to the town that night , certain that Queenstown was doomed ...
... close the plant for the usual spell , he went around the building , saying : " Put your tools away , boys , there'll be no work here again . " The men walked through the fog to the town that night , certain that Queenstown was doomed ...
Page 156
... close liaison between the financial and technical leaders of the company , and cultivated that spirit of impartial criticism and consultation , which is as essential to the efficient management of large companies as it is to the system ...
... close liaison between the financial and technical leaders of the company , and cultivated that spirit of impartial criticism and consultation , which is as essential to the efficient management of large companies as it is to the system ...
Page 249
... close of the year it was producing copper at about £ 100 a ton and selling it for little more than £ 80 . Mt. Lyell faced extinc- tion . On 24 March 1921 the directors announced that unless the price of copper improved or working costs ...
... close of the year it was producing copper at about £ 100 a ton and selling it for little more than £ 80 . Mt. Lyell faced extinc- tion . On 24 March 1921 the directors announced that unless the price of copper improved or working costs ...
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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