The richest ore, worth from one to four ounces per ton, occurs in irregular patches and bands very small in comparison with the bulk of the ore stuff, which varies in value from two to seven pennyweights per ton.
The average value of all the ore treated by the Chontales Mining Company, up to the end of 1871, has been about seven pennyweights per ton, and during that time small patches have been met with worth one hundred ounces of gold per ton.
They worked hard enough during the day, but only brought back three pennyweights of gold-dust with them.
Before the party returned to tea I had washed out all the stuff, and procured from it nearly two pennyweights of gold-dust, worth about 6s.
But as for me I like a swag, At least a little more Than what we got there in a week-- Eight pennyweights 'mongst four.
The French silver for gilding is said to be alloyed with 5 or 6 pennyweights, and ours with 12 pennyweights of copper in the pound troy.
Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.
When, as in this table, the fraction of an ounce is expressed by two places of decimals, it may be reduced to pennyweights (dwts.
At Achin the bangkal of thirty pennyweights twenty-one grains, is the standard.
An old prospector will judge from six ounces of stuff within a few pennyweights what will be the yield of a ton.
The stories lost nothing in the transmission; for pennyweightswere magnified to ounces, ounces to pounds, pounds to hundredweights.
One shaft had just come upon the gold, and great excitement was produced by the statement that the first bucketful of earth had yielded twelve pennyweights of the precious metal.
An old prospector will judge from six ounces of lode stuff within a fewpennyweights of what will be the yield of a ton.
Before his time the mixed mint pound had consisted of eleven ounces two pennyweights of silver, and eighteenpennyweights of alloy; but Henry, in 1543, altered it to ten ounces of silver and two ounces of alloy.
We have handled to-day an ingot which contains, to ninety-two ounces ten pennyweights of silver, seven ounces ten pennyweights of copper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennyweights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
