Lode

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title: Lode
text: In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fracture in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. The current meaning dates from the 17th century, being an expansion of an earlier sense of a "channel, watercourse" in Late Middle English, which in turn is from the 11th-century meaning of lode as a "course, way". The generally accepted hydrothermal model of lode deposition posits that metals dissolved in hydrothe
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description: Part of a rock body that holds ore
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date modified: 2023-07-26T18:00:34Z
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