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Page 78
... copper lode stretched across the field . In the next few years no evidence of this lode was found in scores of trenches and tunnels , but as late as 1899 unscrupulous promoters still raised capital by publicizing Thureau's misleading ...
... copper lode stretched across the field . In the next few years no evidence of this lode was found in scores of trenches and tunnels , but as late as 1899 unscrupulous promoters still raised capital by publicizing Thureau's misleading ...
Page 128
... copper strengthened this idea in the public mind . He thought copper water had filled a long swamp in pre - historic times and that over the years the swamp had solidified and been buried beneath sand and pebbles . When the mountains ...
... copper strengthened this idea in the public mind . He thought copper water had filled a long swamp in pre - historic times and that over the years the swamp had solidified and been buried beneath sand and pebbles . When the mountains ...
Page 233
... Copper Company , sharing with the Primrose the one strong lode on Rosebery , decided to erect copper smelters . In 1897 it claimed that its ores averaged 2.34 per cent copper , 13 ounces of silver and 0.15 ounces of gold to the ton ...
... Copper Company , sharing with the Primrose the one strong lode on Rosebery , decided to erect copper smelters . In 1897 it claimed that its ores averaged 2.34 per cent copper , 13 ounces of silver and 0.15 ounces of gold to the ton ...
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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