Word: lode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...
...lush green hills of Minas Geraes. It is a landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
...Eldorado Mining and Refining Co. Ltd.'s rich pitchblende field in the Northwest Territories' Great Bear Lake region. Eldorado's lode, which has put Canada in the forefront of uranium producers, was expropriated by the government in January 1944. At the same time it clapped a total security blackout on all atomic activities...
...insisted that they go up in the mountains and work the claim, which had reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...