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Page 49
... million in silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might ...
... million in silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might ...
Page 129
... million tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares ...
... million tons of ore , maybe even 220 million tons . In 1898 Sticht's thorough inspection suggested that the mine held far less ore and alarmingly less copper than he had suspected . His cautious report undermined the value of shares ...
Page 252
... million tons of over- burden and four million tons of ore had been mined from the open cut , while underground the company mined one and a half million tons , of which one - third came from the adjacent South Lyell ore body . The ore ...
... million tons of over- burden and four million tons of ore had been mined from the open cut , while underground the company mined one and a half million tons , of which one - third came from the adjacent South Lyell ore body . The ore ...
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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