Meaning of shoad | Babel Free

Definitions

Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

Examples

“The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded.”

“Eluvial wolfram was known from the Mount⟳ Carbine area 50 miles northwest from Cairns before 1895, but the black shoads were at first thought to be manganese (hence the name⟳ Manganese Creek for the little creek at the village).”

“Where the fynding of these affordeth a tempting likelihood, the tynners go to work⟳ casting up trenches before them, in depth 5 or 6 foote, more or lesse, as the loose ground went, and 3 or 4 in breadth, gathering up such shoad as this turning of the earth doth offer⟳ to their sight.”

“As mentioned above, many of the important tin streams are well away from any outcropping tin lodes, hence shoad, so Carew oversimplified his account.”

“In search⟳ of alluvial shoad, the miners studied the landscape, the color and nature of earths, and embedded rocks beside streams and rivers.”

“Before developing a streamworks, the quality, depth and lateral extent of the shoad would have⟳ to be tested through strategically placed excavations.”

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