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Page 257
... copper mine that worked continuously in 1922. Australian mining had reached its lowest ebb since the gold ... price of copper was halved , the sharpest fall occurring between 1920 and 1921 when the average price fell from £ 110 to £ 75 ...
... copper mine that worked continuously in 1922. Australian mining had reached its lowest ebb since the gold ... price of copper was halved , the sharpest fall occurring between 1920 and 1921 when the average price fell from £ 110 to £ 75 ...
Page 259
... price of copper . In these crucial years profits from the company's fertilizer works , the second largest makers of superphosphate in Australia , fell sharply . The struggling wheat farmers , vexed by the high price of fertilizer ...
... price of copper . In these crucial years profits from the company's fertilizer works , the second largest makers of superphosphate in Australia , fell sharply . The struggling wheat farmers , vexed by the high price of fertilizer ...
Page 289
... price of copper or an unexpected increase in the cost of production could make the mine unprofitable even though £ 75,000,000 worth of copper ( at present prices ) is buried in the ridge . They knew that the price of copper fluctuates ...
... price of copper or an unexpected increase in the cost of production could make the mine unprofitable even though £ 75,000,000 worth of copper ( at present prices ) is buried in the ridge . They knew that the price of copper fluctuates ...
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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