Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Mount_Lyell_Mining_and_Railway_Company
GPTKB entity
Statements (36)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf mining industry
gptkbp:ceasedMining 1994
gptkbp:contributedTo development of West Coast Tasmania
gptkbp:country gptkb:Australia
gptkbp:culturalHeritage West Coast Wilderness Railway (heritage railway on former route)
gptkbp:dissolved 1994
gptkbp:employs thousands at peak
gptkbp:environmentalImpact pollution of Queen and King Rivers
gptkbp:founded 1893
gptkbp:headquartersLocation gptkb:Queenstown,_Tasmania
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company
gptkbp:industry gptkb:railway_line
mining
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Queenstown,_Tasmania
gptkbp:miningMethod underground mining
open cut mining
gptkbp:notableFor Mount Lyell mine
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:William_Knox
James Crotty
Robert Carl Sticht
gptkbp:operatedBy Mount Lyell Railway
gptkbp:oreProcessed copper ore
gold ore
silver ore
gptkbp:parentCompany Renison Goldfields Consolidated
gptkbp:product copper
gptkbp:railwayStationClosed 1963
gptkbp:railwayStationOpened 1899
gptkbp:significantEvent Mount Lyell disaster (1912)
gptkbp:stockExchange gptkb:Australian_Stock_Exchange
gptkbp:trackGauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Abt_rack_system
gptkb:West_Coast_Tasmania
gptkb:West_Coast_Wilderness_Railway
gptkb:King_River_(Tasmania)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7