Ore Mountains
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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To investigate, the team collected mine water from a flooded uranium mine in the Ore Mountains belonging to Wismut GmbH.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The town, surrounded by the Ore Mountains, appears suddenly, its train platform hugged by buildings of cement, steel, and glass.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
Hobby treasure hunters have launched expensive searches for it across Germany, from lake bottoms to mines in the eastern Ore Mountains.
From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2015
These instructions having been written, Napoleon at first contemplated crossing the Elbe above Dresden to take Schwarzenberg on the flank and rear in the passes of the Ore Mountains.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Its principal metalliferous sites are the Hartz Mountains, on the borders of Hanover and Prussia, and the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains, which separate Saxony from Bohemia.
From The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston
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