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Page 135
... profit on the deal . If the Mt. Lyell directors cherished that hope they were soon disillusioned ; for they made a profit of only £ 9,187 from the mine . The indignant shareholders had the better bargain . The failure of the South ...
... profit on the deal . If the Mt. Lyell directors cherished that hope they were soon disillusioned ; for they made a profit of only £ 9,187 from the mine . The indignant shareholders had the better bargain . The failure of the South ...
Page 139
... profit of £ 180,000 in the forthcoming year . But the British shareholders had been deceived so often that they were ... profit was in sight . He complained that everything exceeded the estimates except the actual profit , which fell ...
... profit of £ 180,000 in the forthcoming year . But the British shareholders had been deceived so often that they were ... profit was in sight . He complained that everything exceeded the estimates except the actual profit , which fell ...
Page 146
... profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious crisis , and it re- quired ruthless retrenchment and all the ingenuity of the com- pany's staff to make less than half of the profit of a few years past . The Mt. Lyell ore body was ...
... profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious crisis , and it re- quired ruthless retrenchment and all the ingenuity of the com- pany's staff to make less than half of the profit of a few years past . The Mt. Lyell ore body was ...
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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