Ore

Real World Example

Imagine trying to find the perfect apple in a grocery store bin filled with a mix of ripe, unripe, and bruised fruit. This is similar to mining ore, where the goal is to extract valuable minerals from rocks that have a mix of useful and non-useful material. Just like you only want to buy the apples that are good enough to eat, miners focus on rocks that contain enough valuable minerals to be worth the effort and cost of extraction, leaving behind the less useful material—much like leaving behind the unripe or bruised apples.