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Page 87
... miners and officials who could produce an official permit . Gormanston , the miners ' town , was named after Lord Gorman- ston , Governor of Tasmania , and like Queenstown the name was not popular with many a radical miner . Early in ...
... miners and officials who could produce an official permit . Gormanston , the miners ' town , was named after Lord Gorman- ston , Governor of Tasmania , and like Queenstown the name was not popular with many a radical miner . Early in ...
Page 192
... miners to specu- late in shares or work their own mines . They knew that miners who bought shares provided capital for new mines and therefore more work for miners ; share - buying was a national service while tens of thousands of men ...
... miners to specu- late in shares or work their own mines . They knew that miners who bought shares provided capital for new mines and therefore more work for miners ; share - buying was a national service while tens of thousands of men ...
Page 197
... miners plentiful , so long as contract work offered excellent pay to the skilled miners , and so long as the Mt. Lyell Co.'s medical union was a wealthier and better benefits society than the Amalgamated Miners Association , the task of ...
... miners plentiful , so long as contract work offered excellent pay to the skilled miners , and so long as the Mt. Lyell Co.'s medical union was a wealthier and better benefits society than the Amalgamated Miners Association , the task of ...
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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