North Mount Lyell

North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as North Lyell) and former railway north of Gormanston on the southern slopes of Mount Lyell in the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania, and on to the ridge between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen.

[2][3][4] The stages of building the infrastructure of the mines, the smelters, and port at Kelly Basin were photographed by John Watt Beattie.

The company was founded by 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.

[5][6] During Crotty's establishment of the company and its operations the company had: 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.