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- noun Plural form of
lode .
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Examples
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Richest of all are the quartz mines, where beautiful white rock, rich with sparkling gold, is found in veins, or "lodes," cropping out of hillsides or dipping down under the earth.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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This drilling has returned mineralized intersections, typically related to veins or chlorite-altered 'lodes' associated with granitic dykes or sills.
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This drilling has returned mineralized intersections, typically related to veins or chlorite-altered 'lodes' associated with granitic dykes or sills.
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Spar or quartz stones incorporated into the stoned-up banks of the drier fields hint of the mineral lodes beneath this ridge that extend deep beneath the river.
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Another possibility is that gold-bearing solutions may be expelled from magma as it cools, depositing lodes as they move into cooler surrounding rocks.
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Investors have pledged more than $40 billion over the next decade to develop gold, silver, copper and other mining operations in rich Andean lodes.
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Investors have pledged more than $40 billion over the next decade to develop gold, silver, copper and other mining operations in rich Andean lodes.
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He embraces the development of water and other resources and laments all the possible mineral mother lodes locked up by wilderness designation.
Jason Salzman: What About the Substance of the McInnis Water Articles? 2010
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I cud warsh an dry a cuppla lodes of lawndree wif dat menny!
Everytime he feels sad, Seal visits - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Irony of ironies, one of the most anticapitalist presidential candidates in American history was one of the most effective at poaching massive mother lodes of dirty capitalist dough.
OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010
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