This bin was half filled with finely broken ore, and as he lifted it in his hands yellow dust sifted through his fingers.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The ore in a vein may occur in one or more ribs, which often vary in thickness from a mere line up to masses several yards in width.
"Geology"
James Geikie
If this was their expectation, they were mistaken, for after a few experiments I went back to town and told them that there was not a vestige of gold in the ore.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood