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Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the TH main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building ...
Geoffrey Blainey. 16 The Toy Smelters HERE was excitement at Crotty when people standing in the TH main street first saw smoke and steam hovering above the smelters . Across the gully , in the draughty , barn - like smelter building ...
Page 149
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
... smelters were inefficient . Queenstown had magnificent smelters , but her railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full ...
Page 237
... smelters shut down for two years , the Hercules was the only zinc mine in the district rich enough to keep working . The mines of Zeehan , not the smelters , had failed . Only four Zeehan mines had sunk deeper than 300 feet , and below ...
... smelters shut down for two years , the Hercules was the only zinc mine in the district rich enough to keep working . The mines of Zeehan , not the smelters , had failed . Only four Zeehan mines had sunk deeper than 300 feet , and below ...
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