Lodes

Richest of all are the quartz mines, where beautiful white rock, rich with sparkling gold, is found in veins, or "lodes," cropping out of hillsides or dipping down under the earth. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)

This drilling has returned mineralized intersections, typically related to veins or chlorite-altered 'lodes' associated with granitic dykes or sills. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Spar or quartz stones incorporated into the stoned-up banks of the drier fields hint of the mineral lodes beneath this ridge that extend deep beneath the river. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another possibility is that gold-bearing solutions may be expelled from magma as it cools, depositing lodes as they move into cooler surrounding rocks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Investors have pledged more than $40 billion over the next decade to develop gold, silver, copper and other mining operations in rich Andean lodes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He embraces the development of water and other resources and laments all the possible mineral mother lodes locked up by wilderness designation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I cud warsh an dry a cuppla lodes of lawndree wif dat menny! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Irony of ironies, one of the most anticapitalist presidential candidates in American history was one of the most effective at poaching massive mother lodes of dirty capitalist dough. ❋ Jason Mattera (2010)

The arid plains of the east were chrome-plated with solar-cell farms, and studded with silvered bubbles, lodes of frozen-out carbon dioxide. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

But, the local manager wrote, “it was apparent that this proviso was discouraging the development of uranium ore deposits …” Once lodes were located, Navajos had neither the experience nor the capital to speed massive amounts of ore out of the ground. ❋ Judy Pasternak (2010)

The richest lodes of undersea minerals are located at hydrothermal vents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The doubting civil authorities were slowly won over, in part because they had heard stories from prospectors of fabulous gold and silver lodes in the hill country.23 These had gone unexploited because of the presence of hostile Indians. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

While Obama and Clinton have only recently discovered the fact that 49 percent of Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers live in rural and small-town Iowa, Edwards has been mining those tiny lodes for years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At first before demand has grown, the rich deposits are mined, as demand grows, the more common medium size lodes are mined, but we get better at it so the net production increases until finally only the really lean stuff is left and production falls as the cost per unit soars. ❋ EliRabett (2009)