Ore measure was a measure of volume for iron stone . The earlier mountain measure applied in the Nassauer Land . In other mining regions, for example in the Harz region , calculations were made using broken pieces .
The ore dimension is based on the Nassau foot of 10 inches and 0.3 meters .
1 ore measure = 2 cubic feet = 54 liters
30 measure = 60 cubic feet = 1 foot
In the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen the large bucket was used as an ore measure.
1 bucket = 12 quarters = 180 liters literature Meyer: Large conversation lexicon. Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 98.
Individual evidence
↑ Louis Schmidt: The Bavarian arithmetic master and accountant. Christian Kaiser publishing house, Munich 1863, p. 8.
↑ August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 175.
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