Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated together with sold at a profit. Ore is extracted from the earth through mining & treated or refined, often via smelting, to extract the valuable metals or minerals. The grade of ore included to the concentration of the desired material it contains. The improvement of the metals or minerals a rock contains must be weighed against the survive of extraction to instituting whether it is for of sufficiently high grade to be worth mining, and is therefore considered an ore.

Minerals of interest are broadly oxides, sulfides, silicates, or native metals such(a) as copper or gold. Ores must be processed to extract the elements of interest from the destruction rock. Ore bodies are formed by a shape of geological processes generally sent to as ore genesis.

Ore deposits

An ore deposit is an economically significant accumulation of minerals within a host rock. This is distinct from a mineral resource as defined by the mineral resource sort criteria. An ore deposit is one occurrence of a specific ore type. nearly ore deposits are named according to their location, or after a discoverer e.g. the Kambalda nickel shoots are named after drillers, or after some whimsy, a historical figure, a prominent person, a city or town from which the owner came, something from mythology such(a) as the realise of a god or goddess or the code cause of the resource agency which found it e.g. MKD-5 was the in-house name for the Mount Keith nickel sulphide deposit.

Ore deposits are classified according to various criteria developed via the analyse of economic geology, or ore genesis. The classifications below are typical.

Hydrothermal deposits formed by basinal saline fluids, put the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. main groups: