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Dictionary of Spanish Mining Terms - 1ORO1.COM

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A DICTIONARY OF<br />

CHISPIADOR, Peru, gold-washer in river-placers (Dwight),<br />

see lavador<br />

(1).<br />

CHIVA (kid), Mex. bar with claw for drawing spikes (Dwight), see u.<br />

barra (1).<br />

CHOCAR (to knock or jostle), Ant. Col. alluv. m. to break up (batir) the<br />

pay-dirt with water, using bars and other tools, in order to conduct<br />

the loosened material to the ground-sluice [canalon (2)] (Uribe), see<br />

placer.<br />

CHOCLO DE ORO, Peru, a mass <strong>of</strong> native gold (say 1<br />

matrix (Dwight),<br />

oz. or more) in its<br />

see pepita.<br />

CHOCOL6N, Mex. (1) the part <strong>of</strong> the hole [barreno (1)] remaining in the<br />

rock after a blast (Dwight) ; (2) timb. hitch in a rock (Dwight), see<br />

huida.<br />

CHOLLA, Mex. opening or hollow space.<br />

A small space filled with s<strong>of</strong>t<br />

ore (Dwight), see drusa.<br />

CHOLO, LA, adj. civilised (<strong>of</strong> Indians).<br />

CHOLO, Peru and Bol. half-breed <strong>of</strong> European and Indian parentage ;<br />

Cholo barretero, Indian miner, see minero (2).<br />

CHOQUE DE ARIETE, pump, water-hammer, water-ram, or (U.S.A.)<br />

knock, syn. golpe de ariete, equiv. Fr. coup de belier.<br />

CHORCA, prov. pit or hole dug in the ground (Velazquez), see hoyo (1).<br />

CHORLO, schorl or common black tourmaline (turmalina) ; c. negro,<br />

L. Cal. Mex. tourmaline crystals (Lucas).<br />

CHORREADERO, Mex. (1) shoot for ore, see paso (2) ; (2) loose or<br />

running ground (Dwight), comp. chorrera (3).<br />

CHORREAR, Mex. in the patio process, after the rendida, the Hz or<br />

ceja (1) is said to drop (chorrear).<br />

CHORRERA, Mex. (1) chorreras, old or abandoned stopes, comp.<br />

a run <strong>of</strong> loose<br />

sacados, salon (2) ; (2) sho3t <strong>of</strong> ore, see clavo (2) ; (3)<br />

rock (Dwight), comp. chorreadero (2) ; (4) rapids <strong>of</strong> a river, see<br />

raudal.<br />

CHORRO, (1) jet <strong>of</strong> water, see hilo (5) ; ch. de vapor, steam- jet ; (2)<br />

spring <strong>of</strong> water found in mines (Dwight), see manantial ; (3) chorros,<br />

Atacama Prov. Chile, dikes <strong>of</strong> diabase traversing the calcareous<br />

marl country, or sheets injected between the beds <strong>of</strong> same, the silver<br />

veins are enriched in a vertical sense by the chorros (E. B. Dorsey),<br />

the name is also given by the miners<br />

see dique (5), comp. u. manto (1) ;<br />

to any sterile fault.<br />

CHORR6N, hackled or dressed hemp (canamo).<br />

CHORTAL, fountain or spring at the surface, see manantial.<br />

CHOZA, Mex. hut, see jacal (1).<br />

CHUA, Chile, small round dish or saucer <strong>of</strong> black unglazed earthernware,<br />

4| inches in diameter and % inch deep, syn. achua, comp. batea.<br />

CHUCA, Chile, a friable layer <strong>of</strong> sand and gypsum overlaying costra and<br />

caliche (1) ;<br />

also described as dull brown and powdery soil frequently<br />

strewn with angular fragments <strong>of</strong> reddish black porphyry rock, and<br />

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