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Page 80
... lease . Nevertheless , the theory that led to the drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding ...
... lease . Nevertheless , the theory that led to the drilling was ultimately justified , for the ore body entered the old Central lease at great depth and was mined in the underground workings of the Mt. Lyell mine . While the scaffolding ...
Page 183
... lease . He suggested to Sticht that the adjoining lease , marked 1839 / 91M on the mining charts , should be quietly acquired . Meanwhile he kept the secret . In the boom days this lease had been explored by the Tasman Lyell Company ...
... lease . He suggested to Sticht that the adjoining lease , marked 1839 / 91M on the mining charts , should be quietly acquired . Meanwhile he kept the secret . In the boom days this lease had been explored by the Tasman Lyell Company ...
Page 184
... lease might be bought for £ 15,000 . Murray was determined to convince the directors that the ore body was leaving the lease at the 850 ' level , and he told his dia- mond drillers to bore a hole to within a few feet of the boundary ...
... lease might be bought for £ 15,000 . Murray was determined to convince the directors that the ore body was leaving the lease at the 850 ' level , and he told his dia- mond drillers to bore a hole to within a few feet of the boundary ...
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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