Ore vs. Gangue

Orenoun

Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

Orenoun

Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.

Orenoun

The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).

Orenoun

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.

Orenoun

Metal; as, the liquid ore.

Orenoun

a metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined

Orenoun

a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit. Ore is extracted from the earth through mining and treated or refined, often via smelting, to extract the valuable metals or minerals.

Ganguenoun

(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.

Ganguenoun

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

Gangue

In mining, gangue () is the commercially worthless material that surrounds, or is closely mixed with, a wanted mineral in an ore deposit. It is thus distinct from overburden, which is the waste rock or materials overlying an ore or mineral body that are displaced during mining without being processed, and from tailings, which is rock already stripped of valuable minerals.