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Posts Tagged → Mount Lyell

The Discovery of Mount Lyell

posted in History on 27 November 2017 by TasProspector
Haulage tramway in the early days of mining on Mount Lyell

Reproduced from an article published in the Mount Lyell Standard and Strahan Gazette (Queenstown, Tas. : 1896 – 1902), Saturday 28 November 1896, and detailing the story of the original discovery of the Mount Lyell Mine, and gold around Queenstown in general.

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