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- ↑ Magnet Silver Mining Company; Brown, A. T (1900), Reports and accounts for the half-yearly meeting of the company to be held at the Launceston Stock Exchange on Friday, March 30, 1900, at 8 p.m, Daily Telegraph Office, retrieved 9 June 2018
- ↑ Photograph - Magnet Silver Mine, LINC Tasmania, 1905, retrieved 9 June 2018
- ↑ Photograph-Magnet Silver Mine, Tas. nd, LINC Tasmania, 1920, retrieved 9 June 2018
- ↑ Photograph - Waratah, Magnet Silver Mine (Postcard), LINC Tasmania, 1910, retrieved 9 June 2018
- ↑ page 10 Magnet in How, Duncan (1992), Historic mines of Western Tasmania : a walking guide, Walk the West Publications, ISBN 978-0-646-10651-9
- ↑ Preston, Keith (2015), The Magnet Mine 1894-1940 : 'careful management - constant production', Australasian Mining History Association, retrieved 9 June 2018