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Page 206
... fire would burn itself out . As they believed that the fire would not spread to the wet , heavy timbers which supported the roof of the drives , the time - keeper merely sent an urgent mes- sage to the mine manager at Gormanston . When ...
... fire would burn itself out . As they believed that the fire would not spread to the wet , heavy timbers which supported the roof of the drives , the time - keeper merely sent an urgent mes- sage to the mine manager at Gormanston . When ...
Page 217
... fire . This commission of Zeehan men examined 54 witnesses and found that as nobody had believed that the mine could catch fire no emergency warning system was thought necessary . In fact not one of the experienced miners who gave ...
... fire . This commission of Zeehan men examined 54 witnesses and found that as nobody had believed that the mine could catch fire no emergency warning system was thought necessary . In fact not one of the experienced miners who gave ...
Page 220
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
... fire . Secondly , it is a remarkable coincidence that the only fire in the mine's fifty working years should occur on the day that the secret Commission of Inspection arrived to prepare a report on a con- tentious , emotional subject of ...
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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