Usually means: Processing minerals to extract metals.
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  1. ore dressing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ore dressing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ore dressing: Vocabulary.com
  4. ore-dressing: Wordnik
  5. ore dressing: Wiktionary
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  7. ore dressing: Dictionary.com
  8. Ore-Dressing, Ore-dressing, Ore dressing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. ore dressing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ore dressing: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (ore dressing)

noun:  Any treatment of an ore used to concentrate its valuable constituents (minerals) into products (concentrate) of smaller bulk, and simultaneously to collect the worthless material (gangue) into discardable waste (tailings).

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