orefield
See also: Orefield
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]orefield (plural orefields)
- (mining) land from which ore is mined
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493:
- The balance is home-produced and is railborne from inland orefields. The home orefields serving South Wales are situated at Banbury and at Irthlingborough, on the ex-L.N.W.R. Northampton-Peterborough branch.
- 2009 February 6, Jamie J. Wilkinson et al., “Anomalously Metal-Rich Fluids Form Hydrothermal Ore Deposits”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5915, , pages 764–767:
- The Midlands Basin orefield in Ireland contains several large zinc-lead(-barium) ore deposits formed from moderate temperature fluids generated by deep crustal circulation of seawater-derived brines during continental rifting ( 15, 16 ).