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Page 179
... lead and zinc slowly increased until in 1910 the ore contained seven times as much zinc and twice as much lead as copper . Over the years the whole ore body probably carried far more zinc than copper , but neither the zinc nor the lead ...
... lead and zinc slowly increased until in 1910 the ore contained seven times as much zinc and twice as much lead as copper . Over the years the whole ore body probably carried far more zinc than copper , but neither the zinc nor the lead ...
Page 231
... lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting Association - Lord Rosebery was British Prime Minister of the day - and after trench- ing for twelve months , he found the zinc - lead ore body which has been the vault of Rosebery's ...
... lead- sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting Association - Lord Rosebery was British Prime Minister of the day - and after trench- ing for twelve months , he found the zinc - lead ore body which has been the vault of Rosebery's ...
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... lead ore body with spasmodic success . In 1899 the Hercules Company had completed its haulage tram from the mine to Deep Lead ( Williams- ford ) , the terminus of the two - foot gauge North East Dundas tram which zigzagged eighteen ...
... lead ore body with spasmodic success . In 1899 the Hercules Company had completed its haulage tram from the mine to Deep Lead ( Williams- ford ) , the terminus of the two - foot gauge North East Dundas tram which zigzagged eighteen ...
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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