Dictionary of Spanish Mining Terms - 1ORO1.COM

SPANISH MINING TERMS Pam
(2) ; (3) Ant. Col. timberman, see palero (1) ; (4) man who works the
bellows in iron-works (Acad.).
PALANQUILLA, hierro p., see u. hierro (1).
PALANQUIN, Cartagena, Sp. lever or brake of a hand- jig (Ibran), see
riquitrum.
PALANQUISTA, see palanquero (2).
PALASTRO, plate of iron ; sheet-iron, iron rolled or beaten into sheets
(hierro laminado).
PALEADOR, man who works with
coal-trimmer.
the shovel, shoveller, syn. palero
(3) ;
PALEADURO, PALEAJE, shovelling.
PALEAR, to shovel, syn. apalear.
PALERO, (1) maker or seller of shovels; (2) ditcher, drainer; (3)
shoveller ; coal -trimmer, see paleador ; (4) timberman, syn. ademador
(1), entibador, Ant. Col. palanquero (3), Astur. Sp. volante (5), equiv.
Fr. boiseur, Ger. Zimmerhauer, Zimmerling ; (5) mine carpenter,
see ademador (2).
PALETA, (1) small shovel, fire-shovel, see pala (1) ; (2) vent, vane of a
ventilator (ventilador) ; (3) bucket or float-board of a water-wheel,
syn. alabe (1), voladera, see cubeta (3) ; (4) Alicante, Sp. (salt-works),
kind of hook [gancho (1)] for breaking up and lifting the thin layers
of precipitated salt (Molina), see gleba, volvedor ; (5) mech. catch,
cam, wiper (Ponce de Leon), see cama (3) ; (6) mas. trowel, see trulla.
PALETADA, trowelful of mortar, see paleta (6).
PALLACO, Peru, a piece of ore of good quality found on the waste-heaps
[desechos (3)] sometimes left at the mouth of an abandoned mine
(Guim), see rebotalleros.
PALLADOR, Peru, ore-sorter, as distinguished from the chancador.
PALLAQUEAR, PALLAR, Peru, to sort or pick pallacos from the dumps,
see rebotalleros.
PALL6N, ( 1 ) assay, button of gold or silver in cupellation, assay-button ;
(2) assay of gold when incorporated with the silver after cupellation,
and before parting with nitric acid (Acad.).
PALMO, palm, handbreadth, one-quarter of a Spanish yard or vara (1).
PALO, (Port, pao), (1) stick, pole, see tocho (1) ; (2) timber (madera) ;
Zac. Mex. any timber used in a mine, whether round or rectangular ;
p. lancero, see u. Have (14) ; palos labrados, hewn timber ; palos
redondos, round timber ; (3) p. hierro, Sonora, Mex. small tree of hard
wood, used in mines ; (4) timb. single prop, see mono (2) ; (5) piedra palo,
La Serena, Chile, asbestos this mineral, together with calcite, is the
principal gangue of a copper lode it is regarded as a good indication.
PALUSTRE, mas. trowel, see trulla.
PAMPA, (1) S. Am. an extensive plain, covered with grass, see llano ;
Peru, elevated plain occupying the base of mountains, comp. jalca ;
(2) Phil, a tree, the wood of which is used for making chests, etc.
(Velazquez).
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