It may now be accepted as a proven fact that no true lode has been formed, or its metals deposited except by aqueous action.
Where base metals are present in the lode stuff frequent retortings of the mercury, say not less than once a month, will be found to have a good effect in keeping it pure and active.
In order that a payable section may not possibly be diluted with material unnecessary to mine, if the deposit is over four feet and under eight feet, the distance across the vein or lode is usually divided into two samples.
Where so much dust and nuggets come from along a crick bed, we knowed there must be a regular motherlode somewheres here.
Flapjack confessed to having spent weeks looking for that mother lode about Freezeout Camp.
To strike a lode and win a braw lass a' in the day, ye may say.
Although with a small plant it might not be profitable to treat this, still with large and suitable machinery it may be made to pay, and the trouble of separating the rich lode from the inferior stone avoided.
The lode being so near vertical, it can be clearly traced for the whole depth of the shafts, and is very well defined.
Again, a second tunnel has just been opened in the southern end of the butte, the engineer hoping to find the main lode lying conformably, or north with easting.
The lode strikes to the north-north-east with a dip of 47º west.
One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits into blocks and slabs, all the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane.
Here, guided by Mr. Grant, who knew the place well, he found a native shaft thirty feet deep and a lode of disintegrated quartz in red or yellow ferruginous clay, the surface looking as rich as the stone it overlies.
The rich gold-bearing lode is situated on the western slope of the hill, and can be seen in all the three shafts which have been sunk.
Mr. Walker believes, not unreasonably, that this lodeis connected with the Apatim or Bujiá reefs.
The rock on both sides of the lode is gold-bearing, and is evidently, as well as the real lode, formed of the debris of old quartz and granites.
If true, the present church of St. Mary deLode deserves far greater recognition than it receives.
Lucius, the first Christian king of Britain, is held to be the founder, and is also supposed to have been buried in the Church of St. Mary de Lode of this city.
I have to be out here, where I may go out looking for oil and find a uranium lode if I keep my eyes peeled and my Geiger counter turned on.
We've found a rich uranium lodeor lens, I think, John," Ralph shouted to him.
Those who got in late have gone further to the northeast of the Klondyke, looking for new locations, and the matter of hunting gold in Alaska has resolved itself into a proposition of finding a mother lode and new pockets.
Williams obeyed instantly in the matter of his screams, but he continued in a lowered voice: "Ma Lode amassy!
Many expeditions were made in search of the fabled Great Lode but all attempts were vain.
Hittell says: "The Mother Lode is one of the most extraordinary metalliferous veins in the world.
Not to darkness, but to eternal light, to rise again from the Mother Lode to mingle in the busy lives of men.
Nor is the direction of the lode always in a straight line.
The lode begins suddenly and ends as suddenly, and though we have searched up and down the state we have never been able to pick it up again.
The mining engineer said: "The Mother Lode runs south from El Dorado County to the lower boundary of Mariposa County.
If Mukton Lode doesn't sit up and take notice with a new lease of life after tonight, I'm a Dutchman.
And I want to tell you, sir, too, that I won't be pointed out as having anything to do with such a swindling concern as the Mukton Lode Company.
Then they gave out that the lode had petered out and they threw it overboard and everybody with it.
That Mukton Lode deal was a clear skin game, Jack, if it is your uncle, and A.
But it would be richer lower down, and we should hit the six-foot lode by driving.
There was another opening going horizontally into the bowels of the earth, where a lode of tin had been followed until it had become worthless.
Geoffrey had little good news to report, for the lode of tin was excessively poor; but all the same he felt that he could work on at a profit, and at any time they might strike a good rich vein.
We must go down, and trust to finding the loderight away.
I reckon if that lode there turns out all that Rocky said I'll have to call it Lone Pine.
If you've got a good lode of this stuff, by thunder, you've got a soft thing!
This is the great lode of Nevada, from which the bulk of her silver has been taken, and few of her mining operations elsewhere were then paying for themselves.
He erected a splendid mill of dressed stone at a cost of thousands of dollars, and went in wildly for all the latest and most improved machinery; but when afterwards he came to test their lode thoroughly, alas!
The Comstock lode has given up an amazing amount of precious metal.
Every newcomer hoped to discover a vein; and within a year or two the district around the Comstock lode was full of deep shafts, many of them abandoned and half-hidden by low brush, but some of them yielding quantities of gold and silver.
It is no wonder that they were troubled, for in the Comstock lode were not only gold and silver, but ten or twelve other metals or combinations of silver with something else.
Smitten lovers had shot it out for her favors on the Mother Lode and on the Comstock, but when life and love still were fair, fate played a scurvy trick on the beauteous Eleanor.
The Comstock Lode produced over a billion dollars.
And vnto Ioseph in the lode of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On bare vnto him.
Along the Mother Lode the rivers ran bank-high and the camps sat in lagoons, the sound of running water rising from the old flumes and ditches.
It was the Rocky Bar stage, up from Shilo through Plymouth, across the Mother Lode and then in a steep, straining grade on to Antelope and Rocky Bar, camps nestling in the mountain gorges.
The lode is a large irregular one of pure arsenical pyrites, existing in a felsite dike near the sea coast.
The galena lode was found to be more important than had been at first supposed.
All parts of the vein should be included, and the lode cross-cut by galleries in more than one spot.
Float is detached fragments of the vein or gangue, and it becomes more and more abundant as the lode is approached until it finally ceases abruptly.
The Comstock lode was first worked for gold, and the miners threw away the black sulphide of silver worth $3,000 to the ton.
The Rainbow silver bearing lode of Butte, Montana, stood 20 feet above the surface.
On the other hand, should his quest be for some ore that is more properly a component of a lode or vein he will examine the side hills and summits where denudation will certainly have exposed such deposits.
Explore your lode along the surface, across, and down its dip.
In South Africa a chain of pools usually follows the course of a line fault, which in its turn marks where an intrusive lode carrying mineral separates two different formations.
And tell them we've devised a way to mine the lode without them--got that?
They could distinguish one type of mud from another deep beneath the surface, and could carry a dredge-tube down to a lode of the blue-gray muck with the unfailing accuracy of a homing pigeon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lode" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
