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Definition of Mine pig
1. Noun. Pig iron made entirely from ore.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mine Pig
Literary usage of Mine pig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1870)
"3 best mine pig, cold blast; mottled mine pig, cold blast, and white mine pig,
cold blast, respectively ; while the fourth was best mine pig, ..."
2. The Chemistry of the Materials of Engineering: A Handbook for Engineering by Alexander Humboldt Sexton (1900)
"Staffordshire All mine pig.—Pig iron made in Staffordshire from ore, without the
addition of cinder, contains about '5 to 75 per cent of phosphorus. ..."
3. Iron and Steel (a Pocket Encyclopedia): Including Allied Industries and Sciences by Hugh Philip Tiemann (1919)
"... All mine pig, mine pig, or ore metal (Eng.) is made from ore without any
admixture of scale or cinder; its composition is about as follows: Phosphorus o ..."
4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"... de Seine fusion, cast iron made by a mixtur j of various grades of all-mine
pig, or by a mixture of these with scrap iron: - grise, gray pig: No. ..."
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