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To extract minerals there are three steps. These steps are mining, smelting, refining. First, the ore must be mined. Then it goes to a process where it is smelted to extract the minerals. Finally, it is refined where the mineral is purified.

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Q: How do miners extract minerals from an ore?
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Who extracted iron?

Miners extract iron ore from the ground.


Why did all miners not become rich?

Ore was deep underground and it was expensive to extract.


What does minerals do?

A miner is a person whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth. It is considered one of the most dangerous trades in the world. In the backward countries miners often do not have social guarantees and in case of destruction or mutilations they are left to the mercy of fate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner


Does an ore have more minerals than a crystal?

Generally an ore is a rock composed of various minerals. A crystal is normally a pure or nearly pure variety of a mineral. Ores are refined to extract one or more specific minerals which exist in the rock. The less desirable minerals are considered waste.


How do you translate 'ore' in English to Arabic?

Ore, a stone from which you can extract metals or other minerals, in Arabic is Khaam (خام). For example, Gold Ore = Khaam Dhahab (خام ذهب) and Iron Ore = Khaam Rassaas (خام رصاص)


What are some similarities of mineral and ore?

Ore is a general description of the range of economic minerals which might be present within a rock. For example the Zn-Pb mines of Ireland extract ore rocks which are rich in the minerals sphalerite and Galena. All of these 'minerals' are 'ore'.


What does a miner do?

A miner is a person whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth. It is considered one of the most dangerous trades in the world. In the backward countries miners often do not have social guarantees and in case of destruction or mutilations they are left to the mercy of fate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner


Steps to mining smelting and refining that are used to extract minerals or elements from ore?

try your best. you test the amount of rock, check the profitability, mine the ore, do the process of smelting. f


How minerals recovered or extracted from their ores?

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.


Is a mineral a gem or an ore?

Either, or both. Minerals are usually considered gems if they are valuable, attractive and highly pure. Minerals are considered ores if they are used to extract a substance. For example, pure haematite is polished and sold as a gem, while crude haematite is used to extract iron.


After miners remove ore from a mine what process removes the metal from the ore?

Smelting


The map of an ore deposit helps miners decide how to mine the ore?

That is correct.