Ore be processed and what ore is of too low a grade to be worth mining. Metal ores are generally oxides, sulfides, silicates, or native metals (such as native copper) that are not commonly concentrated in the Earth's crust, or noble metals (not usually forming compounds) such as gold. The ores must be processed to extract the elements of interest from the waste rock and from the ore minerals. Ore bodies are formed by a variety of geological processes. The process of ore formation is called ore genesis. An ore deposit is an accumulation of ore. This is distinct from a
Ore extension which means that "δ" is a homomorphism of abelian groups satisfying Then the Ore extension "R"["x";"σ","δ"], also called a skew polynomial ring, is the noncommutative ring obtained by giving the ring of polynomials "R"["x"] a new multiplication, subject to the identity If "δ" = 0 (i.e., is the zero map) then the Ore extension is denoted "R"["x"; "σ"]. If "σ" = 1 (i.e., the identity map) then the Ore extension is denoted "R"["x","δ"] and is called a differential polynomial ring. The Weyl algebras are Ore extensions, with "R" any commutative polynomial ring, "σ" the identity ring endomorphism, and "δ" the