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Page 36
... ground , " said Jones defiantly . " This is our ground , " said Crotty . " I came here to peg this ground , and I am going to do it . " " Very well , " said Crotty , fingering his revolver , " I warn you before you do it , to say your ...
... ground , " said Jones defiantly . " This is our ground , " said Crotty . " I came here to peg this ground , and I am going to do it . " " Very well , " said Crotty , fingering his revolver , " I warn you before you do it , to say your ...
Page 84
... ground until the rugged ranges became a chess - board of several hundred leases . A few pack horses and many men carried stores , explosives , and anvils up the steep mountain tracks , and soon huts and the proverbial blacksmith's shop ...
... ground until the rugged ranges became a chess - board of several hundred leases . A few pack horses and many men carried stores , explosives , and anvils up the steep mountain tracks , and soon huts and the proverbial blacksmith's shop ...
Page 204
... ground when a few rocks fell from the roof . Without further warning the roof suddenly collapsed and buried the men . The air mains and the light cable were dis- located , and the darkness and the rush of escaping air added to the ...
... ground when a few rocks fell from the roof . Without further warning the roof suddenly collapsed and buried the men . The air mains and the light cable were dis- located , and the darkness and the rush of escaping air added to the ...
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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