If your pickaxe is not enchanted, mining will reward you with raw iron, which can be smelted into iron ingots. Additionally, you can use TnT to blow up an entire iron ore vein or blocks of ...
The ore from the Hishikari Mine here boasts some of the world’s highest gold content ... Metal and other entities found 170 gold-rich veins extending to a total of 120 kilometers.
A “supergiant” gold ore deposit under an existing gold mine in China could be the world’s largest gold ... a team of geologists detected over 40 gold veins of roughly 330 tons of gold ...