Valuable deposits (4 letters)

{ Answer }

ORES

{ Related Clues }

Cinnabar, etc.
Minerals
Pitchblende et al.
An anagram for rose
Assayers' stuff
Copper containers
Galena and magnetite
Galena and wolframite
Ilmenite and chalcopyrite
Lode finds
Lucky strikes?
Malachite and manganese
Manganese and malachite
Mine finds
Mine products
Miner matters
Miner profits?
Mineral deposits
Mines finds
Raw metals
Refinement targets
Rock groups?
Sources of metals
Unmined minerals
Metal-bearing rocks
Sources of iron and manganese
They lack refinement
Some search for these in vein
They're often lying in beds
Things picked out of the earth

{ Tags }

bauxite, cinnabar, contents, deposits, finds, found, galena, loads, metals, mine, minerals, mispickel, ores, prill, pyrite, rocks, some, stibnite, they, theyre, tram

{ Notes }

The answer ORES is very common and appears about once every 43.2 puzzles.

{ Definition }

ORE as a noun:

1. a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

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