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silver ore
Also silver-ore.
[silver n.]
An ore containing silver. dark red silver ore, pyrargyrite. light red silver ore, proustite.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 16 Engelonde is vol inoȝ..Of seluer or & of gold. c1325Pol. Songs (Camden) 338 He fareth in a while as thouh he hadde silver ore. c1350in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 150 Men þat soght for siluer ore, Within þe erth so gun þai crepe. Ibid., Oþer mynours þeder fore For to seke þam syluer ure. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 596 Mineria, a myne vel Ore.., as..syluer ore, etc. 1454Rolls of Parlt. V. 272 Many mynes of silver oures. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 2 The Metal which is digged from those Veins is called Oar, as Silver oar. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 257 The cobalt was last of all cut out below by silver ore. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 122 Red Silver Ore.—This species is denominated Red chiefly from the colour of its streak. 1805R. Jameson Min. II. 177 Black Silver-Ore... Colour iron-black. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 414/1 Silver ores, properly so called, are very rare in England. 1837Dana Min. 417 Brittle Silver Ore, Lunites rhombicus. Ibid. 425 Flexible Silver Ore, Elasmites rhomboidens. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Min. 443, I have roasted nearly four thousand tons of silver-ore during the past year. |