cupriferous
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The description is no doubt that of the Mannsfeld cupriferous slates.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
On ore smelting he describes the reduction of iron and lead ores and cupriferous silver or gold ores with lead.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
This is black, bituminous, and cupriferous, and when first extracted from the mine it is thrown out into an open space and heaped up in a mound.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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
The yield of the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, proved, alas! to be but poor.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
