Related Clues:

• Bauxite, for aluminum
• Rocky subject?
• Mined asset
• Vein discovery
• Mt. Hood setting
• Metallic material
• Great Lakes freighter load, perhaps
• "-ite" compound, often
• Valuable mine rock
• Metallurgist's sample
• Pay dirt contents
• Unrefined stuff
• Target of a strip search?
• Cinnabar, to mercury
• Hidden gold, e.g