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The Clue

Prospectors' quests (4 letter answer)

The Answer

ORES

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Notes

The answer ORES is very common and appears about once every 44 puzzles.

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An anagram for rose
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Bedrock deposits
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Buried treasures
Cinnabar and galena
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Crude minerals
Cuprite and cinnabar
Galena and bauxite
Galena and cuprite
Galena and malachite
Loads from lodes
Mine finds
Mine products
Mined matter
Mineral deposits
Miners' finds
Placer material
Prill and mispickel
Prill and stibonite
Pyrite and galena
Refinement targets
Rock groups?
Siderite and uraninite
Smelted substances
Smelter stockpiles
Stuff to smelt
Vein pursuits
Vein pursuits?
Vein yields
Blast furnace input
Metal-bearing rocks
They lack refinement
They're found in veins
They can be refined
They come out at the seams
They're dug out of the ground
They're found in rock bands
They may be driven to extraction

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