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Complex metal ores
Polymetallic ores or multimetal ores are complex ores containing a number of chemical elements, among which the most important are lead and zinc. In addition
Polymetallic_ore
Rock or sediment with valuable metals, minerals and elements
processing) Froth Flotation Mineral resource classification Ore genesis Petrology Polymetallic ore Jenkin, Gawen R. T.; Lusty, Paul A. J.; McDonald, Iain;
Ore
The Browns polymetallic ore deposit is a large ore deposit located at Mount Fitch, near Batchelor, 64 kilometres south of Darwin, Northern Territory,
Browns polymetallic ore deposit
Browns_polymetallic_ore_deposit
intrusions. Polymetallic replacement deposits are significant sources of copper, gold, silver, lead, manganese, and zinc. The metallic ore minerals are
Polymetallic replacement deposit
Polymetallic_replacement_deposit
Chemical element with atomic number 47 (Ag)
sources of silver are polymetallic ores from which silver is recovered as a byproduct, especially lead–zinc, copper and gold ores. Although silver is the
Silver
Very rare sulfosalt mineral
and chlorine-bearing robinsonite and semseyite, in the Madjarovo polymetallic ore deposit in Bulgaria. Ardaite has a hardness of 2.5 to 3 on Mohs scale
Ardaite
Investment in the precious metal silver
obtained as a byproduct from lead-zinc, copper, and gold mines, and that polymetallic ore deposits accounted for more than two-thirds of U.S. and world silver
Silver_as_an_investment
Economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust
Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within Earth's crust. Uranium is a fairly common element in the Earth's crust
Uranium_ore
Iron oxide-hydroxide mineral
of the mineral. It was first described in 1813 from the Zlaté Hory polymetallic ore deposit in Moravia, Czech Republic. The name is from the Greek lipis
Lepidocrocite
Extraction of silver from the ground
ISBN 0-600-36263-9. Kassianidou, V. 2003. Early Extraction of Silver from Complex Polymetallic Ores, in Craddock, P.T. and Lang, J (eds) Mining and Metal production through
Silver_mining
Mineral concretion found on the sea bottom
Manganese nodules, also called polymetallic nodules, are mineral concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides
Manganese_nodule
Type of material
hydrogen Metallurgy Metals of antiquity Metalworking Mineral (nutrient) Polymetallic ore Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals Structural steel Transition
Metal
Bolivian mining company
In the San Bartolomé mine Empresa Minera Manquiri mines low-grade polymetallic ores containing silver and tin. In 2011 the company contributed to the
Empresa_Minera_Manquiri
Rare copper iron germanium sulfide mineral
locality is the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia where it occurs in a hydrothermal polymetallic ore deposit in dolomite in association with renierite, pyrite, tennantite
Germanite
Russian explorer (1759–1838)
explorer and mining engineer of Baltic German descent. Ridder discovered polymetallic ores in what is now north-eastern Kazakhstan in 1784. A town in that region
Filipp_Ridder
Chemical compound
related mainly to pegmatites and rarely to oxidation zones of some polymetallic ore deposits. CeF3 may be used as a Faraday rotator material in the visible
Cerium(III)_fluoride
Any of the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium
carbonate‐hosted giant Bayan Obo REE‐Fe‐Nb ore deposit of Inner Mongolia, China; a cornerstone example for giant polymetallic ore deposits of hydrothermal origin"
Rare-earth_element
County-level city in Yunnan, People's Republic of China
Republic of China. Retrieved 2021-12-07. "Laochang ore field (Laochang Mine), Gejiu Sn-polymetallic ore field, Gejiu City, Honghe, Yunnan, China". www.mindat
Gejiu
Chemical element with atomic number 25 (Mn)
408–412. Retrieved 2 February 2021. International Seabed Authority. "Polymetallic Nodules" (PDF). isa.org. International Seabed Authority. Archived from
Manganese
District in Inner Mongolia, China
Carbonate-Hosted Giant Bayan Obo REE-Fe-Nb Ore Deposit of Inner Mongolia, China: A Cornerstone Example for Giant Polymetallic Ore Deposits of Hydrothermal Origin
Bayan_Obo_Mining_District
Mineral extraction from the ocean floor
of minerals from the seabed of the deep sea. The main ores of commercial interest are polymetallic nodules, which are found at depths of 4–6 km (2.5–3.7 mi)
Deep_sea_mining
The Nkomati mine is a polymetallic mine in Mpumalanga province, the north-east of South Africa. It is located 300 km east of Johannesburg, between the
Nkomati_mine
Age around 3000 BC, during which copper objects were formed from polymetallic ores which had different physical properties. The earliest bronze objects
Tin sources and trade during antiquity
Tin_sources_and_trade_during_antiquity
Uranyl carbonate mineral
gravity of 2.8. It occurs in the oxidized zone of uranium-bearing polymetallic ore deposits. It also may occur as an efflorescent crust on the walls and
Andersonite
Ontario. The company was engaged in development of the Cuniptau Mine, a polymetallic ore deposit in Strathy Township of Northeastern Ontario. In later years
Cuniptau_Mines
smaller deposits of zinc, lead and silver. Some copper-molybdenum and polymetallic ore deposits are rich in elements such as bismuth, tellurium, selenium
Geography_of_Armenia
Phyllosilicate mineral
Director of mining operations at Tsumeb. It occurs in a deeply oxidized polymetallic ore deposits in Tsumeb. Associated minerals include quartz, galena, mimetite
Kegelite
Rare zinc arsenate mineral
oxidation zone under hydrothermal conditions in a dolomite-hosted polymetallic ore deposit. It is associated with adamite, stranskiite, koritnigite, claudetite
Warikahnite
Silver mine in Coahuila, Mexico
mid-Oligocene, which form sills, dikes, and stocks. The primary ore for the Peñasquito Polymetallic Mine is in two diatreme breccias, named the Peñasco and the
Peñasquito_Mine
considered high due to the large deposits of alunite, polymetallic ores, deposits of iron ore, etc. The metallurgy industry of Azerbaijan encompasses
Metallurgy_in_Azerbaijan
Process of extracting tin from the ground
around 3000 BC, when it was observed that copper objects formed of polymetallic ores with different metal contents had different physical properties. The
Tin_mining
City in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
and 1926, which confirmed the presence of rich deposits of coal and polymetallic ores in the western spurs of the Putorana Plateau. In 1921, during one
Norilsk
oxidized lead ore on corroded sulfides from a dolostone-hosted hydrothermal polymetallic ore deposit, or from a hydrothermal lead-zinc-copper ore deposit in
Queitite
Rare zinc arsenate mineral
Palenzonaite. It forms as a secondary mineral in the oxidised parts of polymetallic ore deposits and is typically associated with other zinc arsenates such
Paradamite
Region in eastern Ukraine
of the polymetallic ores such as zinc, tin, copper, silver and gold are present. Until the early 20th century, small amounts of poor iron ores were produces
Donbas
Capital of East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan
water pollution is observed in mining areas where the enrichment of polymetallic ores takes place. Water quality is affected by industrial waste and the
Oskemen
Chemical element with atomic number 50 (Sn)
around 3000 BC, when it was observed that copper objects formed of polymetallic ores with different metal contents had different physical properties. The
Tin
Doyleite from Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (D)
List_of_minerals_recognized_by_the_International_Mineralogical_Association_(D)
Frazione in Tuscany, Italy
interest to the Etruscans and later Romans of Populonia were the polymetallic ores of Campiglia Marittima, which contain copper, lead, zinc, iron, silver
Populonia
Island chain in Northeast Asia
fisheries and also mineral deposits of pyrite, sulfur, and various polymetallic ores. There are hopes that oil exploration will provide an economic boost
Kuril_Islands
beneath the Cordillera Oriental unnecessary. Cerro Rico of Potosí Polymetallic ore Potosí Silversmithing School Siglo XX mine Tin mining in Bolivia Halls
Bolivian_tin_belt
Silver etc. mine near Mullan, Idaho, USA
Valley of northern Idaho, producing 1000 tons of ore per day. The ore deposit type is Polymetallic veins of hydrothermal origin. The mining method used
Lucky_Friday_mine
andesite, pykrete, basalt and trachybasalt rocks and contain deposits of polymetallic ores. The climate is transitional continental with Mediterranean influence
Bakadzhitsite
Refining process in metallurgy
57-67 Kassianidou, V. 2003. Early Extraction of Silver from Complex Polymetallic Ores, in Craddock, P.T. and Lang, J (eds) Mining and Metal production through
Cupellation
District in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Between 1919 and 1926, Soviet geologist Nikolay Urvantsev confirmed rich polymetallic deposits around Norilsk, laying groundwork for later development. In
Talnakh
Bulgarian geologist (1928–1997)
focused on paragenesis and mineralogy of gold and silver ores as well as on the polymetallic ore deposits containing gold in Sredna Gora and eastern Rhodope
Vesselina_Breskovska
Hungary. Metals are in blue (Al — aluminium ore, Mn — manganese, Fe — iron ore, U — uranium, PM — polymetallic ores (Cu, Zn, Pb)). Fossil fuels are in red
Geography_of_Hungary
Colorless mineral
bearing slag which has been exposed to seawater. It also occurs in polymetallic ore deposits. It occurs associated with laurionite, penfieldite, fiedlerite
Paralaurionite
United Kingdom based mining company
copper Garth Daniel : polymetallic massive sulphides similar to engine zone, rich in zinc, lead and copper Central Zone : polymetallic massive sulphides similar
Anglesey_Mining
Archaeological site in Turkey
originated in Arslantepe area. Objects from Arslantepe using such polymetallic ores are mainly ascribed to Level VIA (3400–3000 BCE), dating to the Uruk
Arslantepe
Lead germanium sulphate mineral
oxidized portions of a dolostone-hosted hydrothermal germanium-bearing polymetallic ore deposits. The oldest samples are estimated to be 541 million years
Fleischerite
Polymetallic deposit cluster
-11.01667; -76.43333 The Huarón Mining District is one of the richest polymetallic (Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu-(Au)) deposit clusters in Peru. It is located 20 km SSW
Huarón_Mining_District
Chinese engineer (1944–2025)
comprehensive beneficiation technology for tungsten molybdenum bismuth complex polymetallic ore - Shizhuyuan method November 2003 Member of the Chinese Academy of
Sun_Chuanyao
Chinese metal and minerals company
15-year contract with the International Seabed Authority to explore polymetallic nodules in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone of the Pacific. "China Minmetals"
China_Minmetals
Mountain range in Bulgaria
of gneiss, amphibolites and schists, containing small deposits of polymetallic ores of little commercial importance. Sakar is in the transitional zone
Sakar_(mountain)
Copper mine in Chile
Santo Domingo is a polymetallic mine project in Chile's Atacama Region. The mine is planned to produce copper and iron and as by-products also cobalt and
Santo_Domingo_mine
Reservoir in Slovakia
plant in Hodruša-Hámre, which extracts and processes gemstone and polymetallic ores at the Rozália mine. The lake is a popular spot for relaxation and
Hodruša_Reservoir
Naturally occurring pure metallic silver mineral
(estimated at 26,000 tonnes in 2025) is a by-product from smelting polymetallic sulfide ores. Representative native silver specimens by locality Crystalline
Native_silver
for silver and polymetallic ore waste. The dumps contain arsenic rich ore, which in medieval times was considered waste. The medieval ore dumps are heavily
Parascorodite
Mine in Magallanes Region, Chile
Cutter Cove is a closed polymetallic copper-gold-zinc mine in Magallanes Region. It lies in southwestern Brunswick Peninsula in an area without roads near
Cutter_Cove
Soviet chemist
Department carried out a multilateral chemical analysis of local polymetallic ores, salts and other materials. In addition to scientific and pedagogical
Evgenii_Przhevalsky
Russo-German military governor (1842–1921)
institutions, including rural ones, were put into operation, development of polymetallic ores in Tetyukh was started, fisheries supervision was introduced, the
Paul_Simon_Unterberger
construction began on enterprises for the extraction and processing of polymetallic ores in the Norilsk area. New machine-building enterprises and large thermal
East_Siberian_Krai
Archeological find in Kfar Monash, Israel
determined to be of "an Egyptian type". Objects from Arslantepe using such polymetallic ores are mainly ascribed to Level VIA (3400–3000 BCE), dating to the Uruk
Kfar_Monash_Hoard
Retrieved 6 February 2015. "Quel bilancio Ue poco equilibrato". Il Sole 24 Ore. 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 8
Economy_of_Italy
in 1897 where a battery and cyanide plant were established to process the ore. Other mineral discoveries, besides gold, were also made during this period
Mining in the Northern Territory
Mining_in_the_Northern_Territory
town itself was founded in the 13th century. The rich deposits of polymetallic ores, containing also gold and silver, brought wealth to the town, resulting
List of World Heritage Sites in Slovakia
List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Slovakia
Physical search for minerals
"Three-dimensional audio-frequency magnetotelluric imaging of Zhuxi copper-tungsten polymetallic deposits, South China". Journal of Applied Geophysics. 172 103910. Bibcode:2020JAG
Prospecting
Copper mine in Altai Krai, Russia
approximately 148.5 million tonnes of ore grading at 0.79 % copper. Geologically part of the Rudny Altai polymetallic belt, the mine is categorized as a
Zolotushinsky_mine
Soviet geologist, mineralogist (1915–1991)
syngeneticity of Altai polymetallic ores and host rocks. 1957. (in Russian) Bezsmertnaya M. S., Gorzhevsky D. I. Near-ore changes in polymetallic deposits of Altai
Marianna_Bezsmertnaya
Marcasite, Dachang tin-polymetallic ore field, Nandan County, Guangxi, China. Size: 3.5 × 3 × 1.5 cm
List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (M)
List_of_minerals_recognized_by_the_International_Mineralogical_Association_(M)
Alabama Press, p.41-42. "Northmet project ahead of the pack in Minnesota polymetallic resource rush," Engineering & Mining Journal, January /February 2008
Copper mining in the United States
Copper_mining_in_the_United_States
Geographical area
region led to eight giant volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits (VMS) associated with polymetallic massive flanks of volcanic cones in the form of pyrite
Iberian_Pyrite_Belt
Kazakhstan mining company
Kazakhstan’s main ore and non-ferrous metal producers: Zyryanovsk Lead Complex in Zyryanovsk (now Altay), Leninogorsk Polymetallic Complex in the Leninogorsk
Kazzinc
United States historic place
Kernan and Charles Koppus. Besides placer deposits, copper is found as polymetallic replacement deposits in the fault planes, fractures and joints of the
Kennecott,_Alaska
The district contains several copper-polymetallic, copper-porphyry and stratified sulphuric pyrite deposits and ore manifestations. Some of deposits of
Merisi_Mining_District
Supply, demand and allocation of the Earth's natural resources
December 2008, p.3 F. M. Herzig and M. Hannington "Polymetallic Sulfides at the Modern Seafloor-A Review" Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 10 (Elsevier) 1995, pp.
Natural_resource_economics
Town in the Northern Territory, Australia
which mining or milling of uranium ore had previously been undertaken. Compass suspended its work on the polymetallic proposal in 2002, after low metal
Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
Rum_Jungle,_Northern_Territory
Mine in Peru
Zn-Pb-(Ag) ore body was discovered. The mining company Volcan through its now subsidiary Compañía Minera Chungar S.A.C., operates the polymetallic Animón
Chungar_Mine
Mine in Peru
International Investment Co. Ltd (22.5%) and CITIC Metal Co. Ltd (15.0%). The polymetallic mine is located at altitude of about 4000 meters above sea level in Challhuahuacho
Las_Bambas_copper_mine
Village in Isfahan province, Iran
Arsenical copper production was also taking place. The ore was mined from some polymetallic ore deposits in the same area. These deposits contain a mixture
Arisman
Disused copper and tin mine in Cornwall, England
dated to 295 Ma, near the beginning of the Permian period, and major polymetallic mineralization took place around 25 million years later. Lodes in Cornwall
Great_Wheal_Charlotte
Mine in Romania
largest polymetallic reserves in Romania having significant reserves of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc amounting to 20 million tonnes of ore grading
Cavnic_mine
copper-molybdenum mines, 3 copper mines, 13 gold and gold-polymetallic mines, 2 polymetallic mines and 2 iron ore mines. In addition to those mines registered in
Mineral_industry_of_Armenia
Chemical element with atomic number 29 (Cu)
from Polymetallic Nodules". Minerals. 10 (4): 360. Bibcode:2020Mine...10..360S. doi:10.3390/min10040360. International Seabed Authority. "Polymetallic Nodules"
Copper
Chinese state-owned gold mining company
Copper-Gold Mine – Situated in Tibet Autonomous Region, Jiama is a significant polymetallic deposit, producing copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, lead, and zinc.
China National Gold Group Corporation
China_National_Gold_Group_Corporation
Mining industry in Sweden
Boliden AB remains a major producer of gold in Sweden, because their polymetallic mines can produce as much as 2,000 kilograms per year. Some gold is commonly
Mining_in_Sweden
Eldorado Gold. Production is targeted in Q1 2017. Olympias is a gold-rich polymetallic carbonate replacement deposit hosted in strongly deformed metamorphic
Olympias_mine
Town and municipality in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
early 2020s with the development of the Vareš Silver Project, a major polymetallic mining operation originally established by the British-Australian company
Vareš
zinc is shipped as concentrate to foreign smelters. The Red Dog is a polymetallic deposit, which also produces lead and silver concentrates. Hecla Mining's
Zinc mining in the United States
Zinc_mining_in_the_United_States
Soviet geologist, mineralogist (1912–2002)
years later, this mineral became the title mineral for a new group of polymetallic tellurides called the bilibinskite group. In 1979, in honor of Vladimir
Vladimir_Bezsmertny
Historic mine in Myanmar
resources, the polymetallic mine yields silver, lead, zinc, copper and other metals. One of the largest high-grade silver-lead-zinc ore bodies in the world
Bawdwin_Mine
Mountain in Alaska
limestone and underlying Permian Nikolai greenstone. Copper is found as polymetallic replacement deposits in the fault planes, fractures and joints. Minerals
Bonanza_Peak_(Alaska)
Chemical element with atomic number 78 (Pt)
common, and are often stabilized by metal bonding in bimetallic (or polymetallic) species. Tetracoordinate platinum(II) compounds tend to adopt 16-electron
Platinum
Chemical element with atomic number 28 (Ni)
especially in an area called the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the form of polymetallic nodules peppering the seafloor at 3.5–6 km below sea level. These nodules
Nickel
Polymetallic plumbo-telluride mineral
first identified in the USSR in 1979 in Uzbekistan in the ores of the Kochbulak gold-polymetallic deposit. However, the optical properties of the Uzbek montbrayite
Montbrayite
Town in Oshikoto Region, Namibia
scratched the surface. Most of the ore was removed in the 20th century by cut-and-fill methods. The ore was polymetallic and from it copper, lead, silver
Tsumeb
Lukhumi arsenic deposit in the Ambrolauri district, and the Madneuli polymetallic (barite, copper, lead-zinc, pyrite, silver, sulfur, gold bearing quartzites)
Mining_in_Georgia_(country)
Mining corporation
the site as a mining consultant. Records show mining production in the polymetallic mine in 1412 A.D. with the region later abandoned by 1868 amid the Panthay
Burma_Mines_Ltd.
Rock formation in Transbaikalia and Mongolia
China: Implication for crustal architecture and its control on polymetallic mineralization". Ore Geology Reviews. 141 104648. Bibcode:2022OGRv..14104648L.
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Boy/Male
British, English, German, Slavic, Swiss
Ore Hill; Both a Surname and a Place Name
Boy/Male
Greek
From the mountain.
Boy/Male
Greek
From the mountain.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Belgian : habitational name from a place called Oreye or Oerle in Liège province.
Boy/Male
Greek
Friend of Orestes.
Female
Native American
Native American Iroquois name ORENDA means "magic power."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
Boy/Male
Russian Slavic English
Eagle.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Oare in Berkshire, Kent, and Wiltshire, or Ore in East Sussex, all named with Old English Åra ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’. It may also be a topographic name from the same element, though Reaney and Wilson consider that in general this would have had an initial N-. Compare Noah 2.Scottish : possibly from the Sussex place name.
Surname or Lastname
English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from either of two minor places in Lancashire called Orell, from Old English Åra ‘ore’ + hyll ‘hill’, probably denoting a hill with deposits of iron ore. Reaney and Wilson also mention a medieval female personal name, Orella, but there is no evidence of a link with the surname.Swedish : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Jewish (Sephardic and Israeli)
English, German, and Jewish (Sephardic and Israeli) : from the Biblical personal name Noah (see Noe).English : probably a variant spelling of Noar, a topographic name derived from misdivision of the Middle English phrase atten ore ‘at the bank or steep slope’ (Old English Åra).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places called Harwell in south Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the gray one’, from HÄra ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English hÄ“ore, hÌ„re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
Boy/Male
Gaelic American Hebrew
Pale.
Surname or Lastname
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish : from the Old Norse byname Orri ‘blackcock’ (the male black grouse).Scottish : nickname for someone with a sallow complexion, from Gaelic odhar ‘pale’, ‘dun’.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a shore or ridge, from Old English Åra ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (see Ore).
Boy/Male
Biblical
A raven.
Boy/Male
Greek
From the mountain.
Male
Greek
(ὈÏÎστης) Greek name derived from the word orestias, ORESTES means "of the mountains." In mythology, this is the name of the son of Agamemnon.
Boy/Male
Russian Slavic
Eagle.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Ore.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. A certain William de Orenge mentioned in Domesday Book probably derives his name from Orange in Mayenne. Later medieval examples probably come from a female personal , Orenge, of obscure derivation.French : habitational name from a place in Vaucluse.
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n.
The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
n.
A trough for washing ores.
n.
The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
n.
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
v. t.
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
a.
Of or pertaining to oreography.
n.
A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.
v. t.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
n.
A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
n.
A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
n.
The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
n.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
n.
The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
n.
The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.
n.
The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
n.
Metal; as, the liquid ore.
a.
Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
n.
A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
n.
A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.