Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mining and metallurgy, a kind of iron ore, which consists essentially of carbonate of iron intimately mixed with coal. It is a very important ore of iron, especially in Scotland, where its true nature was discovered about the beginning of the present century. Often called
black-band ironstone .
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
Etymologies
- black + band (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The blackband ores are confined to the coal measures of the Triassic rocks in Chatham and Moore counties.”
“Wanley, it is to be feared, lags far behind the times -- painfully so, when one knows for a certainty that the valley upon which it looks conceals treasures of coal, of ironstone -- blackband, to be technical -- and of fireclay.”
“The iron trade was in its infancy, and those engaged in it lacked the resources for the acquisition of wealth that were evolved from the discovery of blackband mineral deposits by Mushet, the application of the hot blast by Neilson, and the introduction of other more economical modes of working.”
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“The coal-field continued to be worked until the accidental discovery of the blackband about 1845.”
“Ironstones "(Glasgow, 1861), observes: --" Strange to say, he was leaving behind him, almost as the roof of one of the seams of coal which he worked, a valuable blackband ironstone, upon which Kinneil Iron Works are now founded.”
“Mr. Ralph Moore, in his "Papers on the Blackband Ironstones" (Glasgow, 1861), observes: -- "Strange to say, he was leaving behind him, almost as the roof of one of the seams of coal which he worked, a valuable blackband ironstone, upon which Kinneil Iron Works are now founded.”
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