argentiferous
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Spain exports argentiferous lead and pig lead mainly to England and France, with minor quantities to other countries of Europe and to Argentina.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
Our engineer declared it to be argentiferous galena, but it proved to be magnetic iron.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
"Note the anal angle of the secondaries and the argentiferous discal area bordering the subcostal nervule."
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
If the rock prove argentiferous I should hope to strike virgin silver in the capillary or aborescent shape below.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Fuente Ovejuna is built on a hill, in a well-irrigated district, which, besides producing an abundance of wheat, wine, fruit and honey, also contains argentiferous lead mines and stone quarries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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