1.   Captained an ore ship on the Great Lakes.

2.   Concentrate is the ore Freeport ships for processing elsewhere, and is mostly copper, with smaller amounts of gold and silver.

3.   Broken Hill Propriety Co. Ltd. said Monday it has taken delivery of a new ore carrier ship, the Iron Yandi, from Daewoo Heavy Industries in South Korea.

4.   Thirty crew members were plucked from a foundering iron ore ship in a daring helicopter rescue early Saturday, the Canadian coast guard said.

5.   Thirty sailors were Saturday airlifted by helicopter off an ore ship which was on the point of sinking in rough seas in the north Atlantic, coastguards here said.