Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mineral matter in a vein exclusive of the ore; gangue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The earthy or nonmetalliferous part of a lode, vein, or ore-deposit. See
gangue . - noun A concretion formed within a vein; a phlebolite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; gangue; matrix; -- called also
veinstuff .
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- noun
gangue
Etymologies
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Examples
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This ore, very rich in iron, enclosed in its fusible veinstone, was perfectly suited to the mode of reduction which the engineer intended to employ; that is, the
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This ore, very rich in iron, enclosed in its fusible veinstone, was perfectly suited to the mode of reduction which the engineer intended to employ; that is, the
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All the patience, all the ingenuity of the settlers was needed; but at last it succeeded, and the result was a lump of iron, reduced to a spongy state, which it was necessary to shingle and fagot, that is to say, to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone.
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All the patience, all the ingenuity of the settlers was needed; but at last it succeeded, and the result was a lump of iron, reduced to a spongy state, which it was necessary to shingle and fagot, that is to say, to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone.
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A huge mass of the veinstone holding abundance of this mineral is exposed, whence it may be plentifully obtained in excellent crystals.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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But there are apparently good reasons for preferring the theory of Richthofen: viz., first, the veinstone of the Comstock is chiefly quartz, the natural and common precipitate of _hot_ waters, since they are far more powerful solvents of silica than cold.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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An inner reform is therefore imperative today, if we are to succeed in unearthing and sifting, in our perception of nature, under the veinstone of practical symbolism, the true intuitional content.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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The ores are chiefly sulphurets and the veinstone is quartz and siderite.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The veinstone averaging this width, is quartz, and carries ten per cent. sulphurets, mainly pyrite.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The vein-gold of this State is usually found in a gangue of quartz, or disseminated in a slaty veinstone; and is commonly associated with iron and copper pyrites.
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