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Page 68
... months for £ 22,403 . As tenders for building the remainder of the railway were too high and as the pace of construction was too slow , the company appointed E. Carus Driffield as railway engineer . An energetic South Australian , who ...
... months for £ 22,403 . As tenders for building the remainder of the railway were too high and as the pace of construction was too slow , the company appointed E. Carus Driffield as railway engineer . An energetic South Australian , who ...
Page 119
... months , when the organization was still small , the company spent £ 12,838 on directors ' fees , cablegrams ... month before the rich ore was discovered . The resentment was mutual , for when the first London director visited the mine ...
... months , when the organization was still small , the company spent £ 12,838 on directors ' fees , cablegrams ... month before the rich ore was discovered . The resentment was mutual , for when the first London director visited the mine ...
Page 134
... month the first sample of copper concentrate was railed down the winding gully which is followed today by the new West Lyell highway . In seven months , however , so much copper was lost in the tailings that treatment was unprofitable ...
... month the first sample of copper concentrate was railed down the winding gully which is followed today by the new West Lyell highway . In seven months , however , so much copper was lost in the tailings that treatment was unprofitable ...
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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