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Page 38
... passing of the years , the absence of records , and the frailty of human memory made it impossible for the court to decide the date of the rich discovery with absolute certainty . Even if it had passed judgment on the Karlson ...
... passing of the years , the absence of records , and the frailty of human memory made it impossible for the court to decide the date of the rich discovery with absolute certainty . Even if it had passed judgment on the Karlson ...
Page 116
... passing of the great era of construction - of new town , smelters and railways - reduced Strahan's imports , but the ... passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time it made a small profit but ...
... passing of the great era of construction - of new town , smelters and railways - reduced Strahan's imports , but the ... passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time it made a small profit but ...
Page 229
... passed , only five companies * had paid more than £ 3,000,000 in dividends ; and possibly no industrial company had passed that sum . Mt. Lyell had lost its place , however , as one of the world's great copper mines . Although the ...
... passed , only five companies * had paid more than £ 3,000,000 in dividends ; and possibly no industrial company had passed that sum . Mt. Lyell had lost its place , however , as one of the world's great copper mines . Although the ...
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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