Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside, Ore...
...Aluminum Ore Co., of Mobile, Ala., invited White to experiment at its plant in breaking down suspensions of solids, etc.; Aluminum Laboratories, Ltd., of Kingston, Ontario, desired complete data on the instrument's application to metallurgy...
Timber, copper, iron ore...
Many kinds of ore cannot be detected by geophysical instruments. Their reactions to electric currents and other physical tests are too much like the "country rock" around them. But all minerals are soluble in water to some extent. Ground water seeping through the rock may pick up so much of a metallic salt that the metal's presence can be detected by ordinary chemical analysis...
...science. When it is further developed, a prospector will have to know botany as well as geology. For example, if he finds a plant called Amorpha canescens growing where little else grows, he will have a good hint that the rock beneath the roots is worth investigating for lead ore...