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Gua A DICTIONARY OF
mados, if on the floor = pisos (7) ;
= estacadas (2) ;
in shafts, with open crib timbering
in running ground = estacadas (3) cortadoras (spilling
in soft rocks and drifts, without filling, use vigas for the frames
laths) ;
[marcos (2)] and viguetas for the lagging ; in those which need filling,
frames of viga doble or tirante (5), and lagging of viga and vigueta
alternately ; in shafts and winzes, in moderately loose ground, use
vigas for the cinchos (4) and viguetas for the estacadas (2), in less
consistent " country " put continuous anillos (2) of viga, and, in very
broken ground, vigas dobles or tirantes (5) (Louis Carrion) ; (2) st.
eng. packing (Ponce de Leon), see empaquetadura (1) ; (3) guar-
niciones, harness, see arnes (1 ).
GUARNIEL (or garniel), see carriel.
GUASCA, Col. (1) plant from the rind of which is made very strong
girdles in roofing houses it is used for tying the small polings [cintas
(2) measuring-tape, see cinta (1).
(4)] to the encanados ;
GUATACA, Cuba, spade, see azada (1).
GUAYACAN, GUAYACO, lignum- vitae tree (Guaiacum officinale), syn.
lodonera ; g. coco and g. polvillo occur in Antioquia, Col., g. baho and
g. tonie in Tolima, Col. and g. contaro and g. negro in Panama, see
canahuate, comp. vera.
GUAYRAS, see huayres.
GUBIA, gouge, syn. escoplo de media cafia, see cincel (1), trincha (1).
GOEDALES, Inguaran, Mich. Mex. irregular contact-veins of copper
ores occurring in a porphyritic conglomerate and in a felspathic
in a belt of
porphyry (J. C. Haro) ; cupriferous masses occurring
microgranulite, some 2250 and 2550 feet wide, and 5 or 6 miles long,
which intervenes between the andesite and granite from base to summit
of the mountain Inguaran. They are brecciated masses of altered
microgranulite wherein ths chalcopyrite forms the cementing material
(E. Cumenge), seemasa (3).
GtJEJO, see fiador (3).
Gt)EMBE, manila-hemp, see abaca (2).
GUI A, (1) a piece of wood attached to the highest part of th3 beam of a
noria (1) ; the horse or mule, which drives the latter, is attached to
this by a rope ; (2) soil or mark indicating the proximity of any vein,
and the greater or less abundance of the latter ;
the mark directing
to the richest part of a vein, see indicaciones ; (3) blast, a short drill
used in commencing the borehole, and before the medias and apuradoras
(1), see barrena (2) ; (4) guias, mech. guides in machinery, as
guide-rods of steam-engines ; bor. guides for rods, equiv. Fr. guides,
Ger. Bohrlehren ; hoist, cage-guides, see guiaderas ; pump, guides of
spear-rods, see carcel (3) ; mech. prep, guides for lifters [mangos (1)]
of stamps, see u. guarda (2) ; (5) guias, Chile, little veins, filled by
more or less siliceous iron ore and containing gold (Fuchs and De-
launay) ; at Chanarcillo, small lateral veins, which are metalliferous
only in the neighbourhood of the large lodes ; Peru, mineralised joints
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