Ore

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The ore is a common term for a variety of raw minerals excavated by forward mining bases before the Tiberium appearance. Usually golden in colour, it was mined by Ore Trucks (proto harvesters) and delivered to the furnaces of ore refineries for melting and processing into usable forms.

The process of excavating was long and arduous, and with the arrival of Tiberium, ore was more or less rendered obsolete as a resource, as the new element carried out the mining process all by itself.