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VEIN |
Lode |
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REEF |
Lode |
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LEAD |
A lode. |
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BAR |
A vein or dike crossing a lode. |
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GULF |
A large deposit of ore in a lode. |
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VUGH |
A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle. |
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LEDGE |
A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. |
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TRAIN |
To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its
head. |
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FEEDER |
A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral
vein. |
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DROPPER |
A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main
lode. |
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UNDERLAYER |
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any
required depth. |
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HADE |
To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or
lode. |
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SHOOT |
A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the
lode. |
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BACK |
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal
underground passage. |
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JAMB |
Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following
the lode or vein. |
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HEAVE |
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at
an intersection with another lode. |
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UNDERLAY |
To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a
vein, fault, or lode. |
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PLUMMING |
The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the
place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or
to find which way the lode inclines. |