cupriferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cupriferous
Example Sentences
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The formation was well studied by the miners of that country a century ago as containing a thin band of dark-coloured cupriferous shale, characterised at Mansfield in Thuringia by numerous fossil fish.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
By Pot Assay.—Roasted cupriferous pyrites containing small quantities of gold and silver comes under this heading.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Its characteristics are the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, whereas in South Midian gold and silver were worked; and the parallelogram whose limits are assigned above, might be converted into a Northern Grant.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
In this manner the lead absorbs the gold, whether pure or argentiferous or cupriferous, and the alloy is taken to the cupellation furnace.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The Rossland, the Boundary and the Kootenay districts are the chief centres of vein-mining, yielding auriferous and cupriferous sulphide ores, as well as large quantities of silver-bearing lead ores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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