Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Easily reduced: said of auriferous and argentiferous ores which are reducible without previous roasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Yielding free
gold orsilver ; said of certainores that can be reduced by crushing andamalgamation , withoutroasting or otherchemical treatment.
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Examples
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There were quartz crystals gleaming with lumps of free-milling gold, curling masses of silver and copper wire direct from the mines, gold nuggets of unusual size and brilliancy, and specimens of ores from the principal mines not only of that vicinity, but of the West.
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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Thus far, two deposits that outcrop at surface have been outlined at Maoling in which disseminated, free-milling gold mineralization occurs within a sequence of metasedimentary rocks.
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a ledge of high-grade, free-milling quartz somewhere out there in the
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