ores

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The former provides access to rare earth ores, and the latter can process ores into usable products.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Africa's exports to China are dominated by minerals and raw materials, such as crude oil and metallic ores.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

“They are very complex ores with highly unusual mineralogy, and some of them have relatively high contents of the radioactive elements uranium and thorium,” Goodenough notes.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

Gunnison started selling cathodes made using conventional heap-leaching methods of Johnson Camp’s oxide ores in September.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

When she wasn’t reading, she was drawing ores or hobbits.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls