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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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The traditional method for extracting pure iron from its ore is to heat the ore in a blast furnace with limestone and coke.
Some ore deposit types, such as volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, can contain both syngenetic and epigenetic mineralization.
The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution.
At the nearby Lady Tennyson small amounts of copper ore averaging twenty-five to thirty percent were also raised.
Indeed, the large bulk shipping carriers are queued up for weeks waiting to load basic ore and other items on the way to China.
The kind of ore that attracted iron was once called magnesian stone, because it was discovered in the part of Asia Minor near Magnesia.

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