orefield

See also: Orefield

English

Etymology

ore +‎ field

Noun

orefield (plural orefields)

1. (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, →DOI, 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 ).