Meaning of orefield | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.
2. land from which ore is mined

Examples

“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.”

“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 ).”

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