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• mineral deposit — Introduction       aggregate of a mineral in an unusually high concentration.       About half of the known chemical elements (chemical element) possess some metallic (metal) properties. The term metal, however, is reserved for those chemical… …   Universalium

• ore — /awr, ohr/, n. 1. a metal bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit. 2. a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur. [bef. 900; conflation of ME ore, OE ora ore,… …   Universalium

• Ore — For other uses, see Ore (disambiguation). Iron ore (Banded iron formation) …   Wikipedia

• öre — /ue rddeuh/, n., pl. öre. 1. a bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone. 2. a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone. 3. a bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona. 4. a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands …   Universalium

• Mineral exploration — is the process of finding ore (commercially viable concentrations of minerals) to mine. Mineral exploration is a much more intensive, organized and professional form of mineral prospecting and, though it frequently uses the services of… …   Wikipedia

• Mineral resource classification — is the classification of mineral deposits based on their geologic certainty and economic value. A McKelvey diagram showing the relationship of mineral resource classifications to economics and geologic certainty.[1] Mineral deposits can be… …   Wikipedia

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• Ore dressing — is one of the principal processes in the work of mining. It consists of separating economically valuable minerals from those with little or no value, or of separating valuable minerals from each other, so that they may be further processed, for… …   Wikipedia

• Ore shoot — is a colloquial term in mining and geology to describe a long seam of mineral or metal bearing rock that can be profitable to extract. The term may have originated in the 17th and 18th centuries when various theories existed on the origins of ore …   Wikipedia

• Ore (disambiguation) — Ore is a term for mineral deposits. Ore may also refer to: Ore, rock that contains minerals Öre, the one hundredth of the Swedish krona. Øre, the one hundredth of the Danish or Norwegian krone 俺 Ore, a Japanese pronoun Operation Ore, a… …   Wikipedia

• mineral — [min′ər əl, min′rəl] n. [OFr < ML minerale, neut. of mineralis, mineral < minera, ore < VL * mina,MINE2] 1. an inorganic substance occurring naturally in the earth and having a consistent and distinctive set of physical properties (e.g …   English World dictionary