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Valuable part of ore

Ross

I believe the answer is:

metal

(Other definitions for metal that I've seen before include "Element such as iron, copper, zinc etc" , "Broken stones" , "Maybe copper" , "Copper or gold, say" , "Iron, gold or silver, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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