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Page 80
... drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding of the diamond drill hovered near the busy benches ...
... drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding of the diamond drill hovered near the busy benches ...
Page 99
... drills . Working with hammer and steel , miners often had to drill in conglomerate rock so tough that one miner was reputed to have blunted seventy pieces of steel to drill a seven - inch hole . After protesting for months , the North ...
... drills . Working with hammer and steel , miners often had to drill in conglomerate rock so tough that one miner was reputed to have blunted seventy pieces of steel to drill a seven - inch hole . After protesting for months , the North ...
Page 276
... drill or travels around the mine in a compressor wagon , drilling outsize boulders dislodged by the firing of the churn - drill holes . The small army of mech- anics , welders and blacksmiths now work in a grey building as large as a ...
... drill or travels around the mine in a compressor wagon , drilling outsize boulders dislodged by the firing of the churn - drill holes . The small army of mech- anics , welders and blacksmiths now work in a grey building as large as a ...
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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