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... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
... Gold had made Victoria the wealthiest and most populous colony in Aus- tralia , and a magnet for both the cream and scum of Tasmania's colonists . Tasmania would stagnate until gold enticed the people back ; and in November 1859 ...
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... gold to be found . It granted £ 3,000 and engaged a surveyor , two assistants , thirteen miners , twelve bush- men ... gold , but not payable " . The government , despair- ing of finding payable gold in the west , gave up the search ...
... gold to be found . It granted £ 3,000 and engaged a surveyor , two assistants , thirteen miners , twelve bush- men ... gold , but not payable " . The government , despair- ing of finding payable gold in the west , gave up the search ...
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... gold in a deep valley below the long , snow - capped range of Mt. Read . Diggers who followed the creeks up Mt. Read in search of the reef which shed the alluvial gold found free gold in the gossan outcrop which marked the Mt. Read mine ...
... gold in a deep valley below the long , snow - capped range of Mt. Read . Diggers who followed the creeks up Mt. Read in search of the reef which shed the alluvial gold found free gold in the gossan outcrop which marked the Mt. Read mine ...
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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