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Do you agree with the statement “All ores are minerals but all minerals need not be ores”. Why?

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Yes, I agree with the statement. The elements or compounds of the metals which occur in nature in the earth’s crust are called minerals whereas ore is a mineral from which the metal is profitably extracted.

  • It is because metal cannot be extreacted from mineral in a convenient way.

Eg: Aluminium metal is found in both mineral -
clay and bauxite.

  • But aluminium is extracted only from bauxite in a convenient way. So bauxite is not ore of aluminium.


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