What is a native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless called?
ore — (Mining) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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