# North Mount Lyell

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Mine in Western Tasmania, Australia

**North Mount Lyell** was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as **North Lyell**) and [former railway](/source/North_Mount_Lyell_Railway) north of [Gormanston](/source/Gormanston%2C_Tasmania) on the southern slopes of [Mount Lyell](/source/Mount_Lyell%2C_Tasmania) in the [West Coast Range](/source/West_Coast_Range) on the [West Coast](/source/West_Coast%2C_Tasmania) of [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania), and on to the ridge between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen.

## North Mount Lyell Copper Company

Wagon built by [Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works](/source/Bristol_Wagon_%26_Carriage_Works) in 1898

The company was short-lived, however the mine, orebody and workings lasted long after the company was absorbed[1] into the workings of the [Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company](/source/Mount_Lyell_Mining_and_Railway_Company) following the failure of the smelters at [Crotty](/source/Crotty%2C_Tasmania).[2][3][4]

The stages of building the infrastructure of the mines, the smelters, and port at [Kelly Basin](/source/Kelly_Basin) were photographed by [John Watt Beattie](/source/John_Watt_Beattie).

## Founder

The company was founded by [James Crotty](/source/James_Crotty_(Prospector)), and was for a few years a fierce competitor with Mount Lyell. [Geoffrey Blainey](/source/Geoffrey_Blainey) gives a description of the rivalry and final amalgamation in *[The Peaks of Lyell](/source/The_Peaks_of_Lyell)*. As Blainey points out, the North Mount Lyell workings eventually proved vital for the Mount Lyell Company.[5][6]

## 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](/source/Mount_Lyell_Mining_and_Railway_Company) leases

- Shipping[7]

- Port and railway terminus at [Kelly Basin](/source/Kelly_Basin) and [Pillinger, Tasmania](/source/Pillinger%2C_Tasmania)

- Smelter and town at [Crotty, Tasmania](/source/Crotty%2C_Tasmania) at the eastern foot of [Mount Jukes](/source/Mount_Jukes_(Tasmania)) and just south of the [King River, Tasmania](/source/King_River%2C_Tasmania)

- Railway terminus at [Linda, Tasmania](/source/Linda%2C_Tasmania)[8]

- Aerial ropeway between North Lyell mine and Linda[9][10][11]

- [North Mount Lyell Railway](/source/North_Mount_Lyell_Railway)

## 1912 disaster

The [1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster](/source/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.[12] A rare photo of the locality is in Blainey's book.[13]

## 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.[14]

## See also

- [Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania](/source/Railways_on_the_West_Coast_of_Tasmania)

- [West Coast Tasmania Mines](/source/West_Coast_Tasmania_Mines)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Strictly the name was *North Mount Lyell Copper Co. Ltd.* see – Julen, Hans (1994), *A brief history of the North Mount Lyell Copper Company 1897-1903*, H. Julen, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-646-21345-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-646-21345-3), North Mount Lyell Copper Company (1899), [*Memorandum and articles of association of the North Mount Lyell Copper Company Limited*](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22673818), s.n., retrieved 3 June 2016 and, North Mount Lyell Copper Company. Railway Dept (1900), [*General regulations to be observed by all persons in the service of the Railway Department of the North Mount Lyell Copper Co. Ltd*](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17504359), [The Company], retrieved 24 May 2012 and consider the 1894 report of the AGM of the North Mount Lyell Company referring to Crotty ["NORTH MOUNT LYELL COMPANY"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39506160). *[Launceston Examiner](/source/Launceston_Examiner)*. Vol. LIV, no. 112. Tasmania. 11 May 1894. p. 6. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["CROTTY"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153976755). *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph_(Launceston))*. Vol. XXII, no. 274. Tasmania. 18 November 1902. p. 6. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["CROTTY"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153943797). *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph_(Launceston))*. Vol. XXIII, no. 189. Tasmania. 10 August 1903. p. 6. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["MOUNT LYELL AND NORTH MOUNT LYELL COMPANIES"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208471418). *[The Ballarat Star](/source/The_Ballarat_Star)*. No. 14683. Victoria, Australia. 25 May 1903. p. 6. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** * [Blainey, Geoffrey](/source/Geoffrey_Blainey) (2000). *The Peaks of Lyell* (6th ed.). Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7246-2265-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Annual reports after the amalgamation emphasize the output and value of the North Lyell mine to the companies operations ["MOUNT LYELL, COMPANY"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209495893). *[The Express and Telegraph](/source/The_Express_and_Telegraph)*. Vol. XLVI, no. 13, 858. South Australia. 11 November 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["NORTH MOUNT LYELL STEAMER"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113705516). *[The Evening News](/source/The_Evening_News_(Sydney))*. Sydney. 2 January 1899. p. 6. Retrieved 22 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["LYELL"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84032081). *[Zeehan and Dundas Herald](/source/Zeehan_and_Dundas_Herald)*. Vol. XXIV, no. 306. Tasmania, Australia. 8 October 1913. p. 4. Retrieved 25 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Regarding the construction and completion in 1901 – ["NORTH LYELL"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35361483). *[The Examiner](/source/The_Examiner_(Tasmania))*. Vol. LX, no. 154 (DAILY ed.). 29 June 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["LYELL"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85612411). *[Zeehan and Dundas Herald](/source/Zeehan_and_Dundas_Herald)*. Vol. XX, no. 182. Tasmania. 17 May 1909. p. 4. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["NORTH MOUNT LYELL"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232824226). *[The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette](/source/The_Mount_Lyell_Standard_And_Strahan_Gazette)*. Vol. 4, no. 670. Tasmania, Australia. 13 August 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 25 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["North Lyell"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83728153). *[Zeehan and Dundas Herald](/source/Zeehan_and_Dundas_Herald)*. Vol. XIV, no. 178. Tasmania. 11 May 1903. p. 4. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** [The Peaks of Lyell](/source/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 Blainey, Geoffrey (1967), [*The peaks of Lyell*](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9534134) (3rd ed.), Melbourne University Press, retrieved 9 April 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["MT LYELL TO CLOSE TWO MINES"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131794214). *[The Canberra Times](/source/The_Canberra_Times)*. Vol. 51, no. 14, 528. 5 November 1976. p. 15. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – 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

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