Lode

A body of mineral or mineralbearing rock located within defined boundaries within the general mass of the mountain. Stevens v. Williams, 1 Mc Crary, 480, Fed. Cas. No. 13,413; Buualo Zinc & Copper Co. V. Crump, 70 Ark. 525, 69 S. W. 572, 91 Am. St. Rep. 87. A body of mineral or mineral-bearing rock in the general mass, so far as it may continue unbroken and without Interruption, whatever the boundaries may be. Iron Silver Min. Co. V. Mining Co., 143 U. S. 394, 12 Sup. Ct. 543, 36 L. Ed, 201; Iron Silver Min. Co. V. Cheesman, 116 U. S. 529, 6 Sup. Ct. 481, 29 L. Ed. 712. A lode must be held “in place” by the adjoining country rock and must be impregnated with some of the minerals or valuable deposits mentioned in the act of congress; Meyin spending money on it, though it may not contain ore in paying quantities; Muldrlck V. Brown, 37 Or. 186, 61 Pac. 428. The mineralized matter must be separated from the neighboring rock by well-defined boundaries; Hayes v. Lavagnino, 17 Utah 186, 63 Pac. 1029. If the mineral-bearing rock be present, very slight evidence of the boundaries will be accepted; Grand Central Min, Co. v. Mining Co,, 29 Utah 490, 83 Pac. 648; but in such case the value of the material must be so in excess of the country rock as to differentiate it therefrom; id.; it must depend on the characteristics of the district; id. In the absence of well-defined walls, broken and stained, etc., matter characteristic of the district Is not a vein; id. Veins or lodes as used in the statutes mean lines or aggregations of metal embedded in quartz or other rock in place;

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all deposits of mineral matter found through a mjneralized zone or belt coming irom the same source, impressed with the same forms, and appearing toa have been created by the same processes. 4 Sawy. 312.

See Vein.