Preposition: of

• gold: A gold mine can produce ingots of precious gold.

Converse of object

• produce: They produce ingots of silver or gold or gems during downtime.

• hold: We manufacture blanks and polished optics from crystal grown within our group or from stocks of ingot held at Crystran to ensure lowest costs.

• cast: A significant proportion of the product is cast ingot or alloy powders.

• use: As an example at the materials level, induction heating is a key process in making the silicon ingots used for semiconductors.

Adjective modifier

• gold: Sadly, however, the vast majority of Aztec gold jewelry soon was melted down into gold ingots for the Spanish crown.

• silver: They are quite common and are often found with silver ingots, fragments and Anglo-Saxon pennies.

• lead: We know that the Romans were mining lead from the lead ingots or 'pigs ' which have been found over the last 230 years.

• small: I focused in on a small ingot of tin I carried in my bag.

• first: The first aluminum ingots are expected to be produced in early 2001.

• golden: Display lots of wealth items here such as Golden ingots and Coins.

Modifies a noun

• fragment: The larger ingot fragment has an approximate silver content of 94 per cent and a gold content of approximately 3 per cent.

• form: This minor industry might therefore have been one of rendering down scrap metal into crude ingot form.

• mold: The need for primary and intermediate mills and the storage and use of large numbers of ingot molds is eliminated.

Noun used with modifier

• aluminum: The aluminum ingots are sent to mills where they are rolled into very thin coiled sheets.

• copper: In addition to these products, copper ingots were also stored at these warehouses for local disposal.

• silver: The most common form of silver ingot was a disk with flowery patterns across its upper surface.

• gold: This is a piece of genuine Chinese jade carved into the shape of an old Chinese style gold ingot.

• steel: The two works were forged steel ingots weighing 38 tons each.

• metal: Quality bell metal ingots consisting of specific quantities of copper and tin are used to cast handbells.