Corporate Body
Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Ltd (1893 - 1960s)
- From
- 29 March 1893
Mt. Lyell, Tasmania, Australia - To
- 1960s
- Functions
- Metallurgy, Rail Industry and Mineralogy or Mining
- Location
- Mt. Lyell, Tasmania
Summary
The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company (MLMRC) was established in 1893 when several small lease holders in the area amalgamated. The company undertook copper mining and smelting on Tasmania's west coast. MLMRC also constructed a railway on Tasmania's west coast during the 1890s. The company was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in 1981 and led to the formation of Renison Goldfields Consolidated Limited.
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
Published resources
Books
- Blainey, Geoffrey, The Peaks of Lyell (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1954), 310 pp. Details
Conference Papers
- Brown, David; Johnston, Ben, 'Lake Margaret Power Scheme - Something old, something new', in 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference! (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2011), pp. 435-447., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.896166680592612. Details
Journal Articles
- Brown, D.; Johnston, B., 'Lake Margaret power scheme: something old, something new', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 9 (1) (2012), 23-32, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.994375385904450. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618763. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
- Cooper, I.; Tomlin, J.; and Reeve, T., 'Tasmania's heritage wilderness railway', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 9 (1) (2012), 33-43. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.994394018875708. Details
- Cooper, Ian; Tomlin, John; Reeve, Tony, 'Tasmania's heritage Wilderness Railway', in 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference! (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2011), pp. 537-550., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.896390276247710. Details
- Haygarth, Nic, 'Murray, Hugh Mervyn (1906-1982), Metallurgical Engineer and Mine Manager' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2013), pp. 200-1. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-hugh-mervyn-15080. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 17 August 2001, Last modified: 22 March 2017
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