GLOSSARY. 161 



INCH, MINER'S (America) Varies in different localities in Western 

 America. The usual one (which discharges 95 cubic feet per hour) 

 is the amount of water that will flow through a horizontal opening, 

 an inch square, under a head of six inches. 



INCLINE A slanting shaft. 



INCRUSTATION A coating of matter. 



IRIDESCENT Showing rainbow colours. 



J. 



JACOTINGA (Brazil) Iron ores associated with gold. 



JEWELLER'S SHOP (Australia) Rich patch of gold-bearing matter. 



JIGGING A process of sorting ores by means of an apparatus having 



a vertical and rotary motion' in water. 

 JOINTS (See Chap. II.) 

 JUMPING A CLAIM Taking possession of an abandoned or un worked 



mine by force or otherwise. 



K. 



KAL A coarse kind of iron. 

 KAOLIN (6V* Chap. VII.) 



KILLAS A name applied in Cornwall to a hard slate or shale through 

 which lodes run. 



L. 



LAGOON A shallow lake, pond, or marsh. 



LAMINA A thin slice. 



LAMINATED Arranged in lamina?. 



LAVA Rock formed by the consolidation of liquid matter which has 



flowed from a volcano. 

 LAVADOROS (Spain) Gold washings. 

 LEAD ( Australia) Well-defined bed of pay dirt. 

 LEADINGS (Australia) The unprofitable dirt above pay dirt. 

 LEDGE Same as a lode. 

 LENTICULAR Of an onion shape. 

 LEVEL Horizontal gallery in a mine. 

 LIGNEOUS Of the nature of wood. 



LITHARGE (Protoxide of lead) Used as a flux by assayers. 

 LITTLE GIANT A movable nozzle attached to hydraulic hose. 

 LOADSTONE An iron ore consisting of protoxide and peroxide ol iron ; 



is magnetic. 



LOAM A mixture of fine sand and clay. 

 LOB OF GOLD (Australia) Rich gold deposit found in an area oi 



small extent. 



LOCATE To establish a right to a mining claim. 

 LODE A longitudinal fissure or chasm filled with ore-bearing matter 



and between two walls. 



