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- ↑ Electrolytic Zinc Barrier Miner 20 October 1916 page 2
- ↑ Mining News Adelaide Advertiser 30 December 1916 page 12
- ↑ Risdon Smelter Mining Link
- ↑ El Zine Bonus After Record £2.8m profit The Argus 24 October 1956 page 17
- ↑ Emu Bay Railway Taken Over by Principal Customer Railway Transportation March 1967 page 7
- ↑ Elura Mine CBH Resources
- ↑ Cobar Developments - New Mine & Railway Railway Digest March 1981 page 73
- ↑ Elura Mine and Railway Opened Railway Digest May 1983 page 160
- ↑ Cobar's mining history Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales) February 2007
- ↑ EZ directors accept bid Canberra Times 10 July 1984 page 15
- ↑ EZI to join in Ranger development Canberra Times 24 January 1980 page 16
- ↑ Uranium bonanza for EZ Canberra Times 24 August 1983 page 30