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Page 127
... four more profitable mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later ...
... four more profitable mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later ...
Page 177
... four after the expectations of the boom had gone astray , rocketted in value . At Linda , where only the Royal and Linda Valley hotels were in business , the two proprietors of the burnt - down hotel at North Lyell entered the trade ...
... four after the expectations of the boom had gone astray , rocketted in value . At Linda , where only the Royal and Linda Valley hotels were in business , the two proprietors of the burnt - down hotel at North Lyell entered the trade ...
Page 284
... four hotels had closed , and that hundreds of huts and houses had disappeared , leaving a scattered town with large wastes of peat and gravel and shabby walls of peeling paint . The expansion of the underground mines in the depression ...
... four hotels had closed , and that hundreds of huts and houses had disappeared , leaving a scattered town with large wastes of peat and gravel and shabby walls of peeling paint . The expansion of the underground mines in the depression ...
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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