{{Short description|Mine in Western Tasmania, Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}} '''North Mount Lyell''' was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as '''North Lyell''') and [[North Mount Lyell Railway|former railway]] north of [[Gormanston, Tasmania|Gormanston]] on the southern slopes of [[Mount Lyell, Tasmania|Mount Lyell]] in the [[West Coast Range]] on the [[West Coast, Tasmania|West Coast]] of [[Tasmania]], and on to the ridge between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen.
==North Mount Lyell Copper Company== [[File:NMLCCo wagon 1898.jpg|thumb|Wagon built by [[Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works]] in 1898]] The company was short-lived, however the mine, orebody and workings lasted long after the company was absorbed<ref>Strictly the name was ''North Mount Lyell Copper Co. Ltd.'' see – {{Citation | author1=Julen, Hans | title=A brief history of the North Mount Lyell Copper Company 1897-1903 | date=1994 | publisher=H. Julen | isbn=978-0-646-21345-3 }}, {{Citation | author1=North Mount Lyell Copper Company | title=Memorandum and articles of association of the North Mount Lyell Copper Company Limited | date=1899 | publisher=s.n. | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22673818 | access-date=3 June 2016 }} and, {{Citation | author1=North Mount Lyell Copper Company. Railway Dept | title=General regulations to be observed by all persons in the service of the Railway Department of the North Mount Lyell Copper Co. Ltd | date=1900 | publisher=[The Company] | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17504359 | access-date=24 May 2012 }} and consider the 1894 report of the AGM of the North Mount Lyell Company referring to Crotty {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39506160 |title=NORTH MOUNT LYELL COMPANY. |newspaper=[[Launceston Examiner]] |volume=LIV |issue=112 |location=Tasmania|date=11 May 1894 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> into the workings of the [[Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company]] following the failure of the smelters at [[Crotty, Tasmania|Crotty]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153976755 |title=CROTTY |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Launceston)|The Daily Telegraph]] |volume=XXII |issue=274 |location=Tasmania|date=18 November 1902 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153943797 |title=CROTTY. |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Launceston)|The Daily Telegraph]] |volume=XXIII |issue=189 |location=Tasmania|date=10 August 1903 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208471418 |title=MOUNT LYELL AND NORTH MOUNT LYELL COMPANIES |newspaper=[[The Ballarat Star]] |issue=14683 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 May 1903 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The stages of building the infrastructure of the mines, the smelters, and port at [[Kelly Basin]] were photographed by [[John Watt Beattie]].
==Founder== The company was founded by [[James Crotty (Prospector)|James Crotty]], and was for a few years a fierce competitor with Mount Lyell. [[Geoffrey Blainey]] gives a description of the rivalry and final amalgamation in ''[[The Peaks of Lyell]]''. As Blainey points out, the North Mount Lyell workings eventually proved vital for the Mount Lyell Company.<ref>* {{cite book| author-link=Geoffrey Blainey|last=Blainey|first=Geoffrey| title= The Peaks of Lyell | edition=6th | publisher=St. David's Park Publishing | location=Hobart| year=2000| isbn=0-7246-2265-9}} – Chapter 12 'The Feud of the Irishmen' – for the Bowes Kelly and James Crotty rivalry – North Mount Lyell vs Mount Lyell</ref><ref>Annual reports after the amalgamation emphasize the output and value of the North Lyell mine to the companies operations {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209495893 |title=MOUNT LYELL, COMPANY. |newspaper=[[The Express and Telegraph]] |volume=XLVI |issue=13,858 |location=South Australia |date=11 November 1909 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Establishments== During Crotty's establishment of the company and its operations the company had:
* The North Mount Lyell mine on its lease adjacent and east of the [[Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company]] leases * Shipping<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113705516 |title=NORTH MOUNT LYELL STEAMER. |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Sydney)|The Evening News]]|location=Sydney |date=2 January 1899 |access-date=22 June 2015 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> * Port and railway terminus at [[Kelly Basin]] and [[Pillinger, Tasmania]] * Smelter and town at [[Crotty, Tasmania]] at the eastern foot of [[Mount Jukes (Tasmania)|Mount Jukes]] and just south of the [[King River, Tasmania]] * Railway terminus at [[Linda, Tasmania]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84032081 |title=LYELL. |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=XXIV |issue=306 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=8 October 1913 |access-date=25 October 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> * Aerial ropeway between North Lyell mine and Linda<ref>Regarding the construction and completion in 1901 – {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35361483 |title=NORTH LYELL. |newspaper=[[The Examiner (Tasmania)|The Examiner]] |volume=LX |issue=154 |date=29 June 1900 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=2|edition=DAILY |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85612411 |title=LYELL. |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=XX |issue=182 |location=Tasmania|date=17 May 1909 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232824226 |title=NORTH MOUNT LYELL. |newspaper=[[The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette]] |volume=4 |issue=670 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=13 August 1900 |accessdate=25 October 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> * [[North Mount Lyell Railway]]
==1912 disaster== The [[1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster]] is also found in Blainey's work, but for decades later there were divergent and popular accounts from the official reports that followed.
==Locality== The North Lyell locality (at which some of the workers killed in the disaster had addresses) was eventually overtaken by the Mount Lyell mine workings.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83728153 |title=North Lyell. |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=XIV |issue=178 |location=Tasmania|date=11 May 1903 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> A rare photo of the locality is in Blainey's book.<ref>[[The Peaks of Lyell]], the photograph caption has ''The site of North Lyell town, blasted away to form the modern open cut'' – photograph adjacent to page 206 of 1967 third edition {{Citation | author1=Blainey, Geoffrey | title=The peaks of Lyell | date=1967 | publisher=Melbourne University Press | edition=3rd | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9534134 | access-date=9 April 2017 }}</ref>
==20th century output== The development of the Mount Lyell mine depended upon the resources of the North Lyell orebody and workings well into the late twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131794214 |title=MT LYELL TO CLOSE TWO MINES |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=51 |issue=14,528 |date=5 November 1976 |access-date=4 June 2016 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}} – although not very precise, the news report refers to the North Lyell operation still in working mode, but reduced capacity</ref>
==See also== * [[Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania]] * [[West Coast Tasmania Mines]]
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