metalliferous
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Origin of metalliferous
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In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geologically, the cavern is in the horizontal limestone, which is evidently metalliferous.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
In 1822 he commenced work as a clerk in a mining office, and soon took an active interest in the working of mines and in the metalliferous deposits.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Or else a libra of the powder prepared from such metalliferous concentrates, half a libra of saltpetre, and a quarter of a libra of salt are heated until they melt.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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