Lode Sentence Examples

The Broken Hill lode is the largest yet discovered.

The next most famous lode is that of Leadville, Colorado, which from 1879 to 1889 yielded $147,834,186, chiefly in silver and lead.

About this lode grew up Virginia City.

The production of this lode declined in 1876, but the total production of this country was increased by discoveries in Colorado (Leadville) and Nevada (Eureka); and in more recent years silver-producing areas in other states (Montana, Utah, Idaho) have been exploited.

The mines there occur in gneiss and schists, which are probably of Archean age; the lode has in places been worked for a width of over 200 ft.

Past the junction, Burwell Lode bends right to head south easterly for 1 & 3 quarter miles.

A minor road crosses the lode near the lock.

He described the mine as having a lode running east to west for over a quarter of a mile.

In two years $7,000,000 worth of gold and silver had been taken from the Tonopah mines and it was asserted that they would prove as rich as the mines of the Comstock Lode.

In April 1872 came the revulsion; there was a shrinkage of $60,000,000 in ten days; then in 1873 a tremendous advance, and in 1875 a final and disastrous collapse; in ten years thereafter the stock of the Comstock lode shrank from $3,000,000 to $2,000,000.

Just past a hopper with a mass of boulders above, I reached the main lode.

This is a large lead-zinc lode which was worked throughout the area of the mine.

The tin lode varied in width from between one to twenty inches.

This large cavern was excavated at a particularly rich part of the copper lode.

I typed in the name ' David Irving, ' and soon found a mother lode of material.

The lode is a large irregular one of pure arsenical pyrites carrying, in addition to gold and silver, nickel and cobalt.

Approaching Salter's Lode Lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.

On the west coast no true lode has yet been discovered, though the vast alluvial deposits of tin found there seem to make such a discovery probable in the future.

In production of gold in 1907 Esmeralda county ranked first with $8,533,617 (nearly 70% of the total); Nye county's output was $1,547,408, Lincoln county's $929,775, ' Apart from their commercial uses, the Sutro Tunnel and the shafts of the Comstock Lode have been employed for scientific investigations, with the object of classifying igneous rocks, determining the variations of temperature, and the character of electrical manifestations beneath the earth's surface, and the relation between the structure of rocks and their rate of cooling.

The city has fishing, manufacturing and trading interests, but its prosperity is chiefly due to the gold mines in the adjacent Silver Bow basin, the source of Gold Creek, and the site of the great Perseverance mine, and to those on the Treadwell lode on Douglas Island, 2 m.

Approaching Salter 's Lode Lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.

Leaving Reach Lode, we have stirred up the silt a bit !

Just beyond this is Salter 's Lode Sluice and Well Creek wiggling away to the top of picture.

N is a very simple looking game that resembles Lode Runner.

Another option is to look for the Mother Lode but finding a good bottle of wine is a lot easier.

The National Archives veterans records is the mother lode of military documentation for genealogists.

The stippled areas represent the ore shoots and the white areas the barren portions of the lode.

The most powerful impulse to mining operations, and the immediate cause of a somewhat lengthy period of wild excitement and speculation, was the discovery and successful opening of the Comstock lode in 1859, in the western part of what is now Nevada, but was then part of Utah.

In early days the placer gold mines of the Columbia, Fraser and Caribou attracted miners from everywhere, but these have declined, and lode mines supply most of the gold as well as the other metals.

This was a stock speculation based on the remarkable output ($ 3 00,000,000 in 20 years) of the silver " bonanzas " of the Comstock lode at Virginia City, Nevada, which were opened and financed by San Francisco capitalists.

The United States came into prominence in about 1860, and the discovery of the famous Comstock lode in Nevada led to an enormous increase in the production.

In New South Wales lode tin occurs principally in the granite and stream tin under the basaltic country in the extreme north of the state, at Tenterfield, Emmaville, Tingha, and in other districts of New England.

In 1859 the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Western Nevada led to the building of Virginia City, a prosperous community on the side of a mountain where human beings under ordinary conditions would not have lived, and eventually brought a new state into existence.

This was especially the case on the " Mother Lode,".where highly promising results were obtained.

From 1859 to 1902 the total yield of this lode was $204,653,040 in silver and $148,145,385 in gold; the average annual yield from 1862 to 1868 was above eleven millions; the maximum yield $36,301,537 in 1877; and the total product to July 1880 was variously estimated at from $304,752,171.54 to $30618125125.

The Broken Hill silver lode is the largest as yet discovered; it varies in width from 10 ft.

In mineral veins and lodes crystallized quartz is usually the most abundant gangue mineral; the crystals are often arranged perpendicular to the walls of the lode, giving rise to a "comby" structure.

Lode tin, as tinstone derived from primary deposits is often termed, is mined in the ordinary method, the very hard gangue in which it occurs necessitating a liberal use of explosives.

The lode was an ore channel of great dimensions included within volcanic rocks of Tertiary age, themselves broken through pre-existing strata of Triassic age, and exhibited some of the features of a fissure vein, combined in part with those of a contact deposit and in part with those of a segregated vein.

At many of the mines at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, large quantities of ores of telluride of gold have been found in the lode formations.

The metalliferous portion of the lode was similarly distributed in great masses, known as bonanzas.