scovann.
Mining (Cornwall).
= scove n. scovan lode: see quots.
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 90 A Scovan Lode, is formed of a hard compact crystalline Stone, either of a brown or black hue, according to the colour of the Tin with which it is mixed.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 105 If it takes its course through a Scovan Lode, it mostly damages..the Scovan.
1814 W. Phillips in Trans. Geol. Soc. II. 118 When tin ore is intimately mingled with quartz and chlorite, the vein is termed a scovan load.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) 22 Scovan lode, a lode having no gossan on its back or near the surface.
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