Answer: ORES
ORES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 535 times.
Referring Clues:
- Vein contents
 - Products of a 16-Across
 - Metallurgists' studies
 - Copper containers
 - They're found in the ground
 - Smelter's stuff
 - Raw material
 - Cinnabar et al.
 - Smeltery input
 - Some train cargoes
 - They lack refinement
 - Mesabi Range yield
 - Vein pursuits
 - Metallurgist's stock
 - They're found in prospectors' sectors
 - Mined metals
 - Cinnabar, taconite, etc.
 - Vein yields
 - Mine extracts
 - Loads from lodes
 - Bonanza finds
 - They're not refined
 - Mine finds
 - Lucky strikes
 - They may be picked out
 - Metal containers
 - Raw metals
 - Smeltery materials
 - They're found in layers
 - Bauxite and others
 - They're found in veins
 - They could use refinement
 - See 9-Down
 - Assayers' samples
 - They come out at the seams
 - They're found in streaks
 - Assayers' stuff
 - Malachite and others
 - Rock groups?
 - Raw materials
 - Valuable deposits
 - These can be found in pockets
 - Miners' finds
 - They're often unearthed
 - Metallic rocks
 - Vein pursuits?
 - Tram loads
 - Blast furnace input
 - Things tunnelers look for
 - Ones in need of refinement
 - They may be driven to extraction
 - Refinement targets
 - Subjects of assays
 - Valuable rocks
 - Meteor materials
 - Metals from the earth
 - Panners' finds
 - Diggers' discoveries
 - Underground deposits
 - They can be refined
 - Some rocks
 - Underground treasures
 - Metallurgists' supplies
 - Claim valuables
 - They need refinement
 - Mined rocks
 - Smelter materials
 - Mineralogists' samples
 - Graded materials
 - Lode stones
 - Some bank deposits
 - Smelter loads
 - Smelter inputs
 - Groundbreaking discoveries?
 - They may hold the lead
 - Buried treasures
 - Sources of nickel, e.g.
 - Mineralogist's sample set
 - Some have a silver lining
 - Gemstone sources
 - Galina and cinnabar
 - Vein glories
 - Pitchblende and bauxite
 - Blast-furnace input
 - Metal-bearing minerals
 - Bank deposits, maybe
 - Buried treasures?
 - Assayers' subjects
 - Galena and bauxite
 - Cuprite and galena
 - Assayers assay them
 - Bauxite and galena
 - Bauxite and more
 - They're all mined
 - Assayed materials
 - Metal holders?
 - They can be picked out
 - They're refined
 - Steelworkers smelt them
 - Rock group?
 - Bauxite and hematite
 - Bauxite, et al.
 - Rock group
 - Hematite and galena
 - Metal containers?
 - Bauxite and borax
 - Smelter substances
 - Natural resources
 - Lode loads
 - Substances in seams
 - Metals-in-the-rough
 - Mined stuff
 - Mine products
 - Cinnabar and hematite
 - Smelted substances
 - Finds in mines
 - Cinnabar and azurite
 - Mined materials
 - They're found in pockets
 - Rock groups
 - Pitchblende and cinnabar
 - Quarry deposits
 - Metallurgist's materials
 - Mining finds
 - Molybdenite and cinnabar, e.g.
 - Bauxite and columbite, e.g.
 - Metal sources
 - Rough stuff
 - Rocks to refine
 - Contents of some deposits
 - Refinable rocks
 - Azurite and cuprite, e.g.
 - Sphalerite and tantalite, for two
 - They get picked out
 - Rush discoveries
 - Mineral sources
 - Prospectors' finds
 - Loads found in lodes
 - Mine extractions
 - Bauxite and cinnabar, e.g.
 - Vein extractions
 - Seam materials
 - Filthy lucre sources?
 - They're removed via shafts
 - Refinery inputs
 - Mine output
 - Bauxite and taconite
 - Mined material
 - Finds in bonanzas
 - Mined things
 - Arsenopyrite and feldspar
 - Tram car fillers
 - Metal-yielding rocks
 - Unrefined finds
 - Mine materials
 - They're struck
 - They're 30-Across
 - Lucky strikes?
 - They're mined and refined
 - Mine deposits
 - Miners' quests
 - Assayer's studies
 - Mineral deposits
 - Sources of iron
 - Metal-filled rocks
 - Sources of metal
 - Tram fillers
 - Miner's discoveries
 - Gold and silver, e.g.
 - Sources of silver
 - Rocks that are mined
 - Some are high-grade
 - They're dug for
 - Vein stuff
 - Mined minerals
 - Leadville find
 - They're unrefined
 - Mine rocks
 - Tram contents
 - Lode rocks
 - Ingot ingredients
 - Rush finds
 - Smelter input
 - Digger's finds
 - They're taken out of ranges
 - Assay materials
 - Metals in the rough
 - Mineralogical deposits
 - Miner concerns
 - Unrefined metals
 - Hematite and malachite
 - Bauxite, etc.
 - Power shovel excavations
 - Mineral rocks
 - They're found in pockets and seams
 - Gold or silver sources
 - Hidden treasures
 - Cobaltite and mispickel
 - Metal deposits
 - Smelters' raw materials
 - Bauxite and borax, e.g.
 - Mica and mispickel
 - Wulfenite and cinnabar
 - Bonanza discoveries
 - Miner profits?
 - Miner matters?
 - They're the reason we search in vein?
 - Rich rocks
 - They could use some refinement
 - Mine yields
 - Galena and mispickel, e.g.
 - Bauxite and stibnite, e.g.
 - Smeltery needs
 - Tram loads, often
 - Smeltery material
 - Mispickel and bauxite, e.g.
 - Feldspar and others
 - Miner matters
 - Tramcar contents
 - Mesabi loads
 - Iron and manganese, e.g.
 - Raw metals, e.g.
 - Taconite and tinstone
 - Pocket finds
 - Metallurgist's study
 - Bauxite and chromite
 - They may be found in prospectors' sectors
 - Metal-bearers
 - Metallurgist's raw materials
 - Lucrative diggings
 - They're discovered in vein?
 - Sources of gold, e.g.
 - Mined-over matter
 - Bauxite and cinnabar
 - Some search for these in vein?
 - Assayer's samples
 - Cinnabar and bauxite, e.g.
 - Things gathered in lodes
 - An anagram for "rose"
 - Underground discoveries
 - Assayer's concerns
 - They're often lying in beds
 - Some raw materials
 - Metals in rocks
 - They're in need of refinement
 - Miner's quarry
 - Cinnabar and manganite
 - Valuable finds underground
 - Lode deposits
 - Valuable veins
 - Galena and others
 - Raw rocks
 - They may hold gold
 - Lodes' loads
 - Rock discoveries
 - Magnetite et al.
 - They might have lead parts
 - Mineral bearers
 - Minerals
 - Mined finds
 - They're found in rock bands
 - Candidates for refinement
 - Rocks of high value
 - Metal-in-the-rough
 - Smeltery supplies
 - Metal detectors' finds?
 - Rock group
 - Refinery deliveries
 - Taconite and hematite
 - Things picked out of the earth
 - Tramcar loads
 - Seams' contents
 - Mined minerals
 - They're dug out of the ground
 - Rock bands?
 - They have lodes of value
 - Raw minerals
 - Mined-over matters
 - Refinery rocks
 - Refinery needs
 - Mine yield
 - Mines' output
 - Mined-over matter?
 - Mine car fillers
 - Galena and cinnabar
 - Tramcars' contents
 - Mine diggings
 - Miners' quarries
 - Iron sources
 - Refined finds
 - Gold holders
 - Mother lodes
 - Galena and hematite
 - Flashes in some pans
 - Hidden treasures (found in the middles of 17-, 26-, 45-, and 60-Across)
 - Deposits in 52-Down
 - Miner's collection
 - Columbite and cuprite
 - Rocks with metal
 - Bank deposits
 - They may need refining
 - Hematite and cinnabar, e.g.
 - Iron and bauxite
 - Bonanzas' yields
 - Claim findings
 - Mine extraction
 - Metals from lodes
 - Sources of iron and manganese
 - Assaying samples
 - Prospectors quarry
 - Assayable substances
 - Rock bands of a sort
 - Columbite and galena
 - Smeltery stocks
 - Pitchblende and tinstone
 - Lode finds
 - Holders of buried treasures
 - Mesabi yield
 - Certain bank deposits
 - Nasties
 - Contents of some ledges
 - Magnetite and others
 - Some tram loads
 - Extracted valuables
 - Sought-after rock group?
 - Metal bearers
 - They're mined for metal
 - They're found in lodes
 - Underground assets
 - Metal refinery input
 - Crops of the pick?
 - Refinery shipments
 - Crude minerals
 - Lodes' output
 - Mine outputs
 - Mineralogists' study
 - Some extracts
 - Veins' contents
 - Mined matter
 - Unrefined deposits
 - Miner finds
 - Seam contents
 - Molybdenite and galena
 - Galena and 69-Across
 - Miner samples
 - Bauxite et al.
 - Unrefined types?
 - Metalliferous rocks
 - Galena and feldspar
 - Galena and iron, for two
 - Plural of 66-Down
 - They're removed from ranges
 - Rich bank deposits
 - Native minerals
 - Rocks worth something
 - Minerals to be processed
 - Mining metals
 - Underground metals
 - Vein extracts
 - "Eros" anagram
 - Rock-band discoveries
 - Contents of veins
 - Silver sources
 - Bauxite and magnetite
 - Anagram for "rose"
 - Unrefined rocks
 - Mine samples
 - Metallurgical specimens
 - Lodes
 - Hidden treasures of a sort
 - Underground rock bands?
 - Miners' take
 - Many "-ite" compounds
 - Some deposits
 - Beryl and bornite
 - They're graded in geology class
 - Metal-bearing rocks
 - Mine discoveries
 - Cerussite and anglesite
 - Mining haul
 - Lodes and lodes
 - Metallurgy concerns
 - Lode contents
 - Magnetite and bauxite
 - Refinery input
 - Matrix extracts
 - Rocks from a mine
 - Iron and tin sources
 - Lode yields
 - Mine bonanza finds
 - Sources of metals
 - Mine bonanzas
 - Gold diggers' objectives
 - Mineral fact sheet details
 - Sourdoughs' strikes
 - Many minerals
 - They come out at the seams?
 - Bonanza finds in mines
 - Moneymaking rock groups?
 - They may come with silver or gold
 - Rocks found in mines
 - Many "-ite" minerals
 - Extraction targets
 - Mining hauls
 - What you might take your lead from?
 - Iron, bauxite and copper
 - Raw resources
 - Minerals ending in "-ite," often
 - Sources of rocky riches
 - Shipments to smelteries
 - What assayers assay
 - Prospectors' objectives
 - Mineralogical stuff
 - Rocks whose names often end in "-ite"
 - Blast furnace materials
 - Prospectors' strikes
 - Miners dig them
 - Mining valuables
 - Metal bearing minerals
 - Contents of some dollies
 - Unearthed assets
 - Galena and prill
 - Unrefined metal
 - Mine valuables
 - Mine contents
 - Loads from mines
 - Cuprite and limonite
 - Cuprite and limnite
 - Refinable minerals
 - Finds to be refined
 - Cuprite and tinstone
 - Rocks you pick over
 - Get a lode of these!
 - All-in-vein stuff
 - Rocks in pockets
 - Metal in the rough
 - Limnite and hematite
 - Vein valuables
 - Subterranean resources
 - Collection from some claims
 - Things pulled out of seams
 - Some contain iron
 - Things assayers assay
 - Unrefined resources
 - Excavated resources
 - Products of 66-Down
 - They're in veins but not arteries
 - Subjects of tests for purity
 - Smeltery imports
 - Seam yields
 - Metal-containing rocks
 - Stuff for smelters
 - Rocks to be processed
 - Miner's finds
 - Unrefined cartfuls
 - Some crust contents
 - Magnetite and cassiterite
 - Unearthed deposits
 - Minecart fillers
 - Some rock bands
 - Mineralogists study them
 - Galena and sphalerite
 - Rocks taken from mines
 - Mining targets
 - Riches of the earth
 - Metal-laden rocks
 - Lodes' contents
 - Many end in "-ite"
 - Gold and silver have them, but not bronze
 - Resources that may contain copper
 - Rocks dug up from mines
 - Minecraft finds
 - Smelter's inputs
 - Mining products
 - Miners' materials
 - Unrefined finds in mines
 - Unrefined minerals
 - Metallurgical subjects
 - Raw mine extracts
 - Galena and magnetite
 - Rocks that 17-, 38- and 62-Across represent, based on their outer letters
 - Metal-yielding minerals
 - Smelt things?
 - They're searched for in a rush
 - Crude metals
 - Mining outputs
 - Valuable minerals
 - Metal deposits that are a homophone of rowing tools
 - Metallic resources
 - Smelter metals
 - Mining yields
 - Treasures buried in the hills
 - Metal bands?
 - Minerals ending in -ite, often
 - Galena and cinnabar, for two
 - Resources in lodes
 - Mining geologists' materials
 - Materials in economic geology
 - A lot of these tend to go to waste
 - Some Minecraft blocks
 - Materials from mines
 - Collectibles
 - Magnetite and malachite
 - Resources from mines
 - Minecraft resources
 - Rich deposits
 - Materials in Minecraft
 - Rocks containing valuable minerals
 - Some extractions
 - Miner's targets
 - Sources of valuable metals
 - Miner discoveries
 - Loads in lodes
 - Loads from a lode
 - Miners extract them
 - Metals from a mine
 - Miner concern
 - Resources earned from mountain territories in Catan
 - Unrefined materials
 - Things in pockets that can be picked?
 - Rocks that may contain precious metals
 - Unrefined metal sources
 - Mined resources
 - Prospectors' targets
 - Valuable metals
 - They're mined, all mined!
 - Mineral and metal mixtures
 - They can be hard to pick out
 - Items that can be smelted in Stardew Valley
 - Chromite and hematite
 - Raw materials for smelters
 - Contents of some veins?
 - Major finds for miners
 - Mining discoveries
 - Valuable Minecraft blocks
 
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