orefield

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noun

Land from which ore is mined.

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Meanings

orefield1

nounorefield (plural orefields)

plural orefields

  1. businessLand from which ore is mined.

    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.

    1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493
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    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 ).

    2009 February 6, Jamie J. Wilkinson et al., “Anomalously Metal-Rich Fluids Form Hydrothermal Ore Deposits”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 764–767

Orefield2

proper noun
  1. An unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Origin

From ore + field.

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APA

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“orefield.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orefield. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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