Definition of "ore-body" [ore-body]

• Ore as existing in the ground in veins, lodes, etc.; a body of ore that has not been mined. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mining, haulage and beneficiation are performed sequentially, and other essential tasks are negelected for the present time; as a result, work activities such as development of deposits (even where this is possible internally inside the ore-body structure), timbering and maintenance of galleries (see photo) are not performed."
• "Shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century the great _Veta Madre_, or "mother lode," of Guanajuato was pierced, with an ore-body 100 feet wide."
• "-- The whole theory of sampling is based on the distribution of metals through the ore-body with more or less regularity, so that if small portions, that is samples, be taken from a sufficient number of points, their average will represent fairly closely the unit value of the ore."