lode

A railroad four miles long, conveys the quartz from the lode to the mills.

The lode descends steeply, and the excavation must follow its course.

When he crosses a lode, its bending is supposed to indicate the presence thereof.

To strike a lode and win a braw lass a' in the day, ye may say.

Mebbe he believes that bunk about the lode being copper, and mebbe he don't.

I give you my word, Slade, this is the only mine or lode of which I know.

And tell them we've devised a way to mine the lode without them—got that?

Silver seldom is found in a lode extending with any great regularity.

No one ever saw the vein or lode in the process of formation.

There would be enough for both if they succeeded in uncovering the lode.