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ore

[awr, ohr]

noun

a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.

a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur.

Origin:
before 900; conflation of Middle English ore, Old English ōra ore, unreduced metal; and Middle English or(e) ore, metal, Old English ār brass, cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German ēr, Old Norse eir, Gothic aiz; compare Latin aes bronze, coin, money

Can be confused: oar, o'er, or, ore.

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Big government-owned steel makers used their import licenses to buy more iron ore than they needed.

Congested railways and ports have also been a problem, especially for coal and iron ore.

Cyanide solution, another extraction method, is used on large leach pads to separate gold from ore and other materials.

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Big government-owned steel makers used their import licenses to buy more iron ore than they needed.

Congested railways and ports have also been a problem, especially for coal and iron ore.

Cyanide solution, another extraction method, is used on large leach pads to separate gold from ore and other materials.

The rest emits as much radiation as high grade ore in around a thousand years.

Hard-rock mining tunnels into the earth to extract gold ore from buried veins.

For more than a century, workers pulled ore from the ground here.

Switzerland is blessed with a commodity prized more than iron ore or soyabeans in uncertain times: safety.

The companies have spent the past six years working to secure permits to begin mining the ore.

Acid leaching of ores in ground ore bodies is worse.

Many ore deposits are formed from submarine volcanoes.

He gathered the deposits and smelted the iron ore himself.

Guinea contains the world's largest reserves of bauxite and its largest untapped reserves of high-grade iron ore.

Iron ore and coal often are found in plateau outliers.

The limited supply of uranium ore could pose a problem too.

The finding may explain how some gold ore deposits formed.

There ore over a million americans in jail for drug related offenses.

The kilns were used to process silver and lead ore and are no longer in operation today.

He and many others got away with it for politically motivated politicos who thought anti communism was ore important than justice.

The ore is mined in open pits and then sent out for processing.

Once those are out and down on paper, it takes m ore critical thinking to connect with the ones that will garner attention.

J, and yield an ore unique in its lithological characteristics, and is the only known locality where.

And ore must be hauled up from ever greater depths.

The metal of interest--silver, in this case--could be isolated, but in the process various metals in the ore were volatilized.

New copper supply is going to be increasingly dependent on smaller mines that are deeper underground and have lower ore grades.

It's the complexity of the hydrothermal vent environment-gushing hot water mixing with cold water near rocks, and ore deposits.

Cheap ways of moving the ore to ocean ports has always been the limiting factor.

Iron ore and coal prices used to be hammered out privately in smoke-filled rooms but are now traded on markets.

The ore then would have been washed with water to tease out gold flakes.

China relies on expensive imported alumina, the refined version of bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is made.

Workers shoveled asbestos ore into one end of a separator bin and fluffy, white, asbestos fiber came out of the other.

Prices dropped for six months until the ore sold for half its normal cost.

Appreciating the uniqueness of each mineral, gem, ore is adding to the feel of truly being a part of this world.

High commodity prices have encouraged the use of mineral-munching bugs to extract metals from waste or low-grade ore.

Silver ore extracted from a single mountain at legendary.

Its state-owned companies often sell oil and ore on spot markets.

On a blank map, trace a route that the ore might take in finding its way into your own hands.

With this method the waste is blended with uranium ore mining waste until it is down to its original radioactivity level.

China re-exports a lot of what it imports, turning hard drives into iPods and iron ore into steel.

Even if some of the books ore below age level you could always give or sell them.

Trace the path of miners through the perilous process of collecting ore and bringing it to the surface.

Other goods-including gold, tin, and a metallic ore called coltan used in mobile devices-are sold on the international market.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural ö·re.

a bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone.

a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone.

a bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona.

a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, the 100th part of a krona.

Also, ø·re [œ-ruh] (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1600–10; ≪ Latin aureus a gold coin

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World English Dictionary

ore (ɔː)

—n
	any naturally occurring mineral or aggregate of minerals from which economically important constituents, esp metals, can be extracted

[Old English ār, ōra; related to Gothic aiz, Latin aes, Dutch oer]

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Word Origin & History

ore

12c., merger of O.E. ora "ore, unworked metal" (related to ear "earth"); and O.E. ar "brass, copper, bronze," from P.Gmc. *ajiz- (cf. O.N. eir "brass, copper," Ger. ehern "brazen," Goth. aiz "bronze"), from PIE *aus- "gold" (cf. Skt. ayah "metal," Avestan ayo, L. aes "brass"). The two words were not

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fully assimilated till 17c.; what emerged has the form of ar but the meaning of ora.

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Science Dictionary

ore (ôr) Pronunciation Key
A naturally occurring mineral or rock from which a valuable or useful substance, especially a metal, can be extracted at a reasonable cost.

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Cultural Dictionary

ore definition

In geology, a mineral that contains a commercially useful material, such as gold or uranium.

Note: Ore deposits are generally mined, and the ore is processed to recover the material.

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