Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any natural occurrence of ore or of economically valuable metalliferous material, whatever may be its form or extent; a metalliferous deposit.
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Examples
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A previous survey, however, would account for the lack of ore-deposit on these old mountains.
Cattle Town 2010
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The following ore-deposit types can be considered suitable for small-scale mining methods:
Chapter 8 1993
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A previous survey, however, would account for the lack of ore-deposit on these old mountains.
Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978
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Aside from young mines such enterprises often arise from the possibility of lateral extension of the ore-deposit outside the boundaries of the property of original discovery (Fig. 3), in which cases there is often no visible ore within the property under consideration upon which to found opinion.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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The localization of values into such pay areas in an ore-deposit are apparently influenced by:
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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The origin and structural character of the ore-deposit.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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If it takes longer than this on the average speculative ore-deposit, it is a gamble on finding further ore.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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