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What does ore mean?

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Noun
  1. Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
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Some ore deposit types, such as volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, can contain both syngenetic and epigenetic mineralization.
The kind of ore that attracted iron was once called magnesian stone, because it was discovered in the part of Asia Minor near Magnesia.
With Finex, coal and ore are turned into iron without coking and sintering.
The Mesabi Iron Range contains some 110 miles of small towns built at the turn of the last century along a seam of iron ore called taconite.
The traditional method for extracting pure iron from its ore is to heat the ore in a blast furnace with limestone and coke.
The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution.

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