Rating | Solver | Clue |
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REEFS | Lodes | |
COSTEAN | To search after lodes. See Costeaning. | |
SOLE | The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes. | |
GROWAN | A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall. | |
CAPEL | A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes. | |
COSTEANING | The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid roc... |