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ore

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[ awr, ohr ]

noun

  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.


ö

2

[ -ruh ]

noun

plural ö.
  1. a bronze coin of Norway, one 100th of a krone.
  2. a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, one 100th of a krone.
  3. a bronze coin of Sweden, one 100th of a krona.
  4. a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, one 100th of a krona.

Ore.

3

abbreviation for

  1. Oregon.

ö

1

/ ˈøə /

noun

  1. a Scandinavian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Swedish krona and ( ø ) one hundredth of a Danish and Norwegian krone
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ore

2

/ ɔː /

noun

  1. any naturally occurring mineral or aggregate of minerals from which economically important constituents, esp metals, can be extracted
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ore

  1. A naturally occurring mineral or rock from which a valuable or useful substance, especially a metal, can be extracted at a reasonable cost.

ore

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

Ore deposits are generally mined, and the ore is processed to recover the material.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ore1

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

Origin of ore2

First recorded in 1600–10; ultimately from Latin aureus “a gold coin of ancient Rome”; aureus ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ore1

Old English , ō; related to Gothic aiz, Latin aes, Dutch oer
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Its biggest economies - Brazil and Argentina - are major exporters of soybeans and petroleum as well as, in Brazil's case, iron ore used in steel production.

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This is why ore of it is needed.

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The US has one operational rare earths mine, but it does not have the capacity to separate heavy rare earths and has to send its ore to China for processing.

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Coking coal and iron ore from the US will be unloaded at Immingham docks and transported to the Scunthorpe site after a scramble for supplies.

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For its part, the US continues to be happy to buy Guyana's key exports of crude oil, gold and bauxite, which is the ore from which aluminium is extracted.

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