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What are ores?

Updated: 9/11/2023
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They are rocks that are chemical compounds of useful metals with nonmetallic elements such as oxygen or sulfur. They are purified with chemical methods that take away the impurity. For example, carbon monoxide removes oxygen (forming carbon dioxide) from iron ores (which are different types of rust- compounds of oxygen and iron).

An ore is a naturally occurring material containing one or more extractable, economically valuable minerals. The term also refers to the minerals thus extracted. Most often the term refers to material containing metallic elements, such as iron ore or copper ore.
Ore is natuarally occuring inorganic substance from which one ore mineral can be easily and profitably extracted.
an ore is a type of rock that contains minerals with important elements including metals
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