Definition & Meaning | English word METALLIFEROUS

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Definitions of METALLIFEROUS

1. (metallurgy) Containing a metallic element. Often used to describe ores that are mined commercially.

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Examples of Using METALLIFEROUS in a Sentence

• Necropsies showed their esophagi were lined with burns and sores from exposure to acidic metalliferous water.
• In 1843 he went to take charge of the Gongo Soco mines in Brazil; afterwards he proceeded to India to report on certain metalliferous deposits for the Indian government; and in 1858, impaired in health, he retired and settled at Penzance.
• He was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research, and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the Jura, the metamorphism of the Western Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins.
• Episode 6: Professor Challis, whom Andrew had met and impressed at a dinner party in Wales some years earlier, uses his influence as a member of The Coal and Metalliferous Mines Fatigue Board to have Andrew employed there as their first full-time medical officer with the expectation that Andrew's role will be to continue his research into the effects of anthracites, including making visits to anthracite mines all over the country.
• In the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, some of the worst accidents were at East Wheal Rose in 1846, where 39 men were killed by a sudden flood; at Levant Mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft; and seven killed at Dolcoath mine in 1893, when a large stull collapsed.
• These are cut through in places by igneous intrusions, mainly of dolerite (quarried at Trusham), and there was also a degree of metalliferous mineralisation which led to the development of a number of mines around the valley of the River Teign; ores of lead, iron, copper, manganese and barite were mined here, for instance at Wheal Exmouth.
• The contact between the SIC and the footwall is marked by "broad haloes of metalliferous hydrous silicate minerals", thought to be created by the early process of magmatic-hydrothermal fluid alteration and the late process of metamorphic fluid alteration.
• Windblast can also occur in metalliferous, kimberlite or even evaporite mines, particularly in block caving mines, as happened at the Northparkes mine in NSW, Australia on 25 November 1999, killing 4.
• Wheal Busy, sometimes called Great Wheal Busy and in its early years known as Chacewater Mine, was a metalliferous mine halfway between Redruth and Truro in the Gwennap mining area of Cornwall, England.
• According to a less accepted story, a man known as "Metalliferous" Murphy, an assayer from Pioche, Nevada, was brought a piece of a grindstone made of sandstone from the Silver Reef area by miners in Pioche.
• The provisions of the Metalliferous Mines Acts 1872 and 1875, applied to quarries, are those relating to payment of wages in public-houses, notice of accidents to the inspector, appointment and powers of inspectors, arbitration, coroners' inquests, special rules, penalties, certain of the definitions, and the powers of the secretary of state finally to decide disputed questions whether places come within the application of the acts.

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