Summary

Registered in Victoria in 1903. The company was formed to take over the undertakings of a company of the same name and the North Lyell Copper Company Limited.

Related entries

Timeline

 1893 - 1903 Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited [I]
 1897 - 1903 North Mount Lyell Cooper Company Limited
       1903 - Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited [II]

Archival resources

Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, (formerly Archives Office of Tasmania)

• Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited [ii] records, NG 1711; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, (formerly Archives Office of Tasmania). Details

University of Melbourne Archives

• Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited [ii] records, 1892 - 1966, Acc Nos 1974.0067 & 1975.0083; University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Blainey, Geoffrey, The peaks of Lyell, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, 1954, 310 pp. Details
• Rae, Lou, Mount Lylell Mining and Railway Co Ltd: a pictorial history 1893-1993, L. Rae, Ulverstone, Tasmania, 1993, 94 pp. Details
• Russell, M. (comp), Mount Lyell mines, Tasmania, 1898. Details

Journal Articles

• Fox, Charlie, 'Work and Welfare at Mt Lyell 1913-1923', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 1, no. 1, 2003, pp. 51-78. Details
• Fox, Charlie, 'Contract work at Mt Lyell, 1903-1923', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 6, 2008, pp. 90-110. Details
• Palmer, B.A., 'Picnic Day on the Mount Lyell Railway', Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 311, 1963. Details