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What does cupriferous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Containing or producing copper.
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The yield of the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, proved, alas!
A cupriferous variety, from Jalpa in Tabasco, Mexico, is known as jalpaite.
On ore smelting he describes the reduction of iron and lead ores and cupriferous silver or gold ores with lead.
Copper silicates occur in the mineral kingdom, many minerals owing their colour to the presence of a cupriferous element.
The lower part of this stratum shows symptoms of the cupriferous schist that lies underneath.
The herbs Rumex acetosa L. and Commelina communis L. are two pseudo-metallophytes thriving in both normal and cupriferous soils along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China.

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