Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

mineral lode.

A mineral bed of rock with definite boundaries in a general mass of a mountain; any belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries that clearly separate it from neighboring rock. - Also termed lode. "Typically, a lode is a concentration of valuable mineral with boundaries sufficiently distinct to import such a definite trend, continuity, and apartness to the formation that it can be traced through the enclosing mass of rock." 1 American Law of Mining § 32.02(2), at 32-7 (2d ed. 1998).