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Ore
The resources that are found in the state of South Carolina include timber, agriculture, and minerals. Minerals that are extracted include Cement, aggregate and clay.
Minerals and groups of minerals can be classified as an ore when they contain a sufficient amount of desired material, most times metals, to be extracted and processed feasibly.
Because you cannot extract coal from a mine when youre halfway across the earth.
It is so because metals cannot be extracted from minerals in a convenient way. E.g.:- Aluminum metal is found in both minerals: clay and bauxite. Aluminum metal is extracted only from bauxite in a convenient way. So, bauxite is an ore of aluminum. On the other hand, it is not extracted from clay so clay remains only as mineral not ore of aluminum.
Strip Mining.
Coebillitte and Theorite are minerals in Yellowknife
Rocks and Minerals that contain elements extracted through mining are called Ores. The rocks that contain the minerals are called ores, The minerals that they contain are called ore minerals, and are extracted to be processed in order to recover whatever element it is that is being mined.
Gold and Copper are chemical elements. No "minerals" can be extracted from them other than 'gold' and 'copper'. They can be extracted from the minerals or 'ores' named in the other answers herein.
Uranium is extracted from minerals.
Arsenic is extracted from some minerals.
asbestos is one...
Thorium is extracted from minerals as monazite, thorite, thorianite.
Mining the beryllium minerals.
rock and dirt simple logic.
The methods used to extract minerals from ores vary; each ore has its own suitable method(s) of extraction. For example, iron can be extracted from its ore through the blast furnace method, while more reactive minerals (such as aluminum) may need to be extracted through electrolysis.
Uranium is extracted from mines as many other minerals.