cupriferous

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The Indian titles to the mineral lands on that lake had been but a short time before completely extinguished, and the surveys of Dr. Houghton were bringing the cupriferous riches of the region into notice.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice

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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

Since I have explained the nature of vitriol and its relatives, which are obtained from cupriferous pyrites, I will next speak of an acrid solidified juice which commonly comes from cadmia.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

If the ore contains any stibium, then iron slag is added to it; if pyrites, then are added cakes melted from a cupriferous stone and sand made from stones which easily melt.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

The yield of the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, proved, alas! to be but poor.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas