Question

1. valuable metals are removed from ores during what process?

○ smelling
○ cleaving
○ streaking
○ mining

Explanation:

Smelting is the metallurgical process that extracts valuable metals from their ores by heating the ore to high temperatures, often with a reducing agent, to separate the metal from its chemical compounds. Mining is the extraction of ores from the earth, cleaving is breaking minerals along planes, and streaking is a mineral identification test, none of which remove metals from ores.

Answer:

smelting