The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metalliferous \Met`al*lif"er*ous\, a. [L. metallifer; metallum metal + ferre to bear: cf. F. m['e]tallif[`e]re.] Producing metals; yielding metals.
Wiktionary
a. (context metallurgy English) Containing a metallic element. Often used to describe ores that are mined commercially.
Usage examples of "metalliferous".
Some of the most important metalliferous deposits of the Cordilleras are found in this group of hot-water caverns.
This process often has importance of an economic kind, for it not infrequently leads to the formation of metalliferous veins or other aggregations of ores, either in the dike itself or in the country rock.
Upper Georgia--the capital of which is Atlanta--is a fruitful, productive, metalliferous region, that will in time become quite wealthy.
Yet this did not explain the extent of the metalliferous strata, which were discovered in other more remote excavation sites as well.
It is a common gangue mineral in metalliferous deposits, and in the form of crystals is often associated with ores of lead, iron, copper and silver.
At all the localities here mentioned the crystals occur with metalliferous ores.
Some of the most important metalliferous deposits of the Cordilleras are found in this group of hot-water caverns.