lode

Preposition: of

• ore: In this year a six to eighteen feet wide lode of high grade copper ore was discovered.

Converse of object

• know: The country is granite, the known lodes in the sett are numerous, running in various directions.
• work: Back to top^ The mine covered quite a large area and worked many lodes, and the workforce in November 1862 numbered 206.
• cross: A minor road crosses the lode near the lock.
• contain: These can be found along much of its entire moorland length originally worked for tin lodes contained in its bed, banks and silts.
• form: These rocks contained many minerals, which crystallized forming mineral lodes.
• have: He described the mine as having a lode running east to west for over a quarter of a mile.

Adjective modifier

• auriferous: The idea is exploded that auriferous lodes necessarily improve in value with depth.
• rich: Top K Knocker A Cornish mine spirit, which was said to knock at the richest lodes.
• main: Just past a hopper with a mass of boulders above, I reached the main lode.
• large: This is a large lead-zinc lode which was worked throughout the area of the mine.
• other: It is narrower and more shallow than any of the other navigable lodes and was probably only used by small Fen Lighters.

Modifies a noun

• formation: Much ignorance is displayed on the subject of lode formation and the deposition of metals therein, even by mining men of long experience.
• material: This is a polished slab cut from a block of lode material from the tip above.

Noun used with modifier

• mineral: The mine itself consisted of several parallel passages which were at right angles to the mineral lodes.
• mother: LANGLY: Guys, I think we're sitting on the mother lode here.
• fissure: In the mining sett ( mining boundary ) there are a multiplicity of fissure lodes.
• tin: The tin lode varied in width from between one to twenty inches.
• quartz: First, let it be said, that certain alluvial gold is unquestionably derived from the denudation of quartz lodes.
• copper: This large cavern was excavated at a particularly rich part of the copper lode.