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Page 108
... port of Burnie , a small town on Emu Bay . The nearest port to Melbourne and the nearest deep - water port to the west coast , Burnie had a third advantage in the forty- eight miles of railway which ran to the tin mine at Mt. Bischoff ...
... port of Burnie , a small town on Emu Bay . The nearest port to Melbourne and the nearest deep - water port to the west coast , Burnie had a third advantage in the forty- eight miles of railway which ran to the tin mine at Mt. Bischoff ...
Page 122
... port was built on the grand scale . Visitors to Kelly Basin , * who saw from down the bay the smoke - ringed hills where the charcoal - burners worked , and the straggling settlement of huts , stores , hotels , Waxman's Hall , Catholic ...
... port was built on the grand scale . Visitors to Kelly Basin , * who saw from down the bay the smoke - ringed hills where the charcoal - burners worked , and the straggling settlement of huts , stores , hotels , Waxman's Hall , Catholic ...
Page 308
... Port Adelaide , chemical works , 174-5 Port Davey , 1 , 4 , 14 , 73 , 84 , 106 , 170 Port Kembla , 259-61 , 281 , coke works , 131 , 173 , 258 Powell , Colonel , 34 , 41 Power , F. Danvers , 182 Powers , Mr Justice , 249-51 Primrose ...
... Port Adelaide , chemical works , 174-5 Port Davey , 1 , 4 , 14 , 73 , 84 , 106 , 170 Port Kembla , 259-61 , 281 , coke works , 131 , 173 , 258 Powell , Colonel , 34 , 41 Power , F. Danvers , 182 Powers , Mr Justice , 249-51 Primrose ...
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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