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... yielded little gold in the following decade . An Anglican parson , William B. Clarke , did more than any man to encourage the search for mineral wealth in Tasmania . He had discovered gold in New South Wales in 1841 , and showed speci ...
... yielded little gold in the following decade . An Anglican parson , William B. Clarke , did more than any man to encourage the search for mineral wealth in Tasmania . He had discovered gold in New South Wales in 1841 , and showed speci ...
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... yielded 598 ounces of silver to the ton , the richest ore on Zeehan . William Orr , who was a pacemaker in the Broken Hill march on Zeehan , was so impressed by the manganese boulders which capped Balstrup's lode that he and Kelly ...
... yielded 598 ounces of silver to the ton , the richest ore on Zeehan . William Orr , who was a pacemaker in the Broken Hill march on Zeehan , was so impressed by the manganese boulders which capped Balstrup's lode that he and Kelly ...
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... yielded little or nothing ; the Mount Lyell ore contract , which yielded £ 148,000 , had ended ; and there remained little ore that was rich enough to ship to Europe at even a modest profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious ...
... yielded little or nothing ; the Mount Lyell ore contract , which yielded £ 148,000 , had ended ; and there remained little ore that was rich enough to ship to Europe at even a modest profit . The Mt. Lyell Co. faced an equally serious ...
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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