| What rock fans may dig? | 23 |
| What miners might strike | 24 |
| What assay offices examine | 26 |
| What a picker may pick | 22 |
| Vermilion Range product | 23 |
| Vein contents, perhaps | 22 |
| Valuable stuff in a vein | 24 |
| Valuable stuff in a pocket | 26 |
| Valuable find in the ground | 27 |
| Underground-railroad cargo | 26 |
| Substance for smelting | 22 |
| Stuff that may hold gold | 24 |
| State s. of Washington | 22 |
| Source of iron or lead | 22 |
| Something in that vein? | 23 |
| Something found in veins | 24 |
| Some search for it in vein | 26 |
| Some Scandinavian coins | 23 |
| Some bucket conveyor material | 29 |
| Smeltery's raw material | 27 |
| Small change in Denmark | 23 |
| Rush participant's prize | 28 |
| Rock with gold or silver, say | 29 |
| Rock that some people dig | 25 |
| Rock enjoyed by metal fans? | 27 |
| Pyrometallurgists treat it | 26 |
| Prospectors might find it | 25 |
| Prospector's yield | 22 |
| Prospector's prospect | 25 |
| Profitable rock extraction | 26 |
| Portland's state: Abbr. | 27 |
| Pitchblende or wulfenite | 24 |
| Penny : pound :: ___ : krone | 28 |
| One of Earth's treasures | 28 |
| Nickel in a pocket, say? | 24 |
| Nickel in a pocket, perhaps? | 28 |
| Mt. Bachelor's home | 23 |
| Money in Denmark or Sweden | 26 |
| Mispickel or cinnabar, e.g. | 27 |
| Mineral in a wall, perhaps | 26 |
| Mineral bearing rock | 23 |
| Metallic rock found in veins | 28 |
| Material in seams and pockets | 29 |
| Material found at diggings | 26 |
| Material for some mills | 23 |
| Lucky rockhound's find | 26 |
| Klondike find, perhaps | 22 |
| Kind of Minecraft block | 23 |
| Japanese group ___SkaBand | 25 |
| Its processing produces slag | 28 |
| ItÂ’s mined and refined | 26 |
| It's totally unrefined | 26 |
| It's picked out of a mine | 29 |
| It's often an oxide | 23 |
| It's moved through adits | 28 |
| It's found in a vein | 24 |
| It's fine for a refinery | 28 |
| It's discovered in veins | 28 |
| It's all in your mine | 25 |
| It passes through adits | 23 |
| It might be picked apart | 24 |
| It might be found in a rush | 27 |
| It may contain mercury | 22 |
| It may be sought in a rush | 26 |
| It may be reached by tunnel | 27 |
| It may be found in a pocket | 27 |
| It may be deep in a mine | 24 |
| It could use some refinement | 28 |
| Groundbreaking discovery | 24 |
| Ground-breaking discovery? | 26 |
| Ground-breaking discovery | 25 |
| Gold in them thar hills? | 24 |
| Gold digger's quest? | 24 |
| Gold container, perhaps | 23 |
| Garnierite, for nickel | 22 |
| Galena or cinnabar, e.g. | 24 |
| Fruit of a miner's labor | 28 |
| Forty-niner's score | 23 |
| For miners it's major | 25 |
| Edmund Fitzgerald cargo | 26 |
| Earth's valuable yield | 26 |
| Delivery to a smeltery | 22 |
| Dane's small change | 23 |
| Dandy Warhols home st. | 22 |
| Contents of some trams | 22 |
| Comstock's contents | 23 |
| Common Great Lakes cargo | 24 |
| Cinnabar or pitchblende | 23 |
| Chalcopyrite, ___ of copper | 27 |
| Cassiterite or cinnabar | 23 |
| Cassiterite or bauxite | 22 |
| Cal.'s northern neighbor | 28 |
| Bounty for prospectors | 22 |
| Blast furnace material | 22 |
| Bauxite or pitchblende | 22 |
| Bank deposit, of sorts | 22 |
| Badlees "Hill" | 24 |
| AssayerÂ’s raw material | 26 |
| ___-Ida (Tater Tots maker) | 26 |
| Mountain nymph of Greek myth | 28 |