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How do ore deposits form?
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Heavy mineral-ore particles, from which metals can be easily extracted, can be washed together by rivers or deposited in rock cracks by the Earth's hot magma. Only easily workable deposits are useful to industry.![Related Image](../../../images/sv1c02f5.jpg) | Iron ore has been mined from the early days of mankind. |
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