A strange type of ore is seen in the Phazon Quarry on the Pirate Homeworld. It is "a mix of between muscle and wood in it's shape, but actually composed of metal ore, with veins of hot blue glowing substance inside." A Mining drill can be operated to mine the substance, and it glows orange when cut, but this glow soon after fades. There are two deposits in the Phazon Quarry on either side of the room; one is cut into a Half-pipe that Samus Aran uses to leave the room and the other becomes a staircase in the wall to a Missile Expansion.
Scan[]
"Numerous fractures detected within these rock sections indicate they are ready to be mined away."
Trivia[]
- Urthic ore makes up the crust of Zebes and Phazon ore and rocks make up Thardus.
- A room exists in the Phazon Mines called Ore Processing.
- The Zoomer description on the Metroid.com website for Metroid: Zero Mission states that "Rock-crushing teeth suggests creature feeds on nutrients found in soil and ore."
Gallery[]
The ore after it has been cut.
| Substances | |
|---|---|
| Hazardous | Acid (Beta/Fake) • Acid Rain • Afloraltite • Dark Water • Fire • Fuel Gel • Lava (Fake/Scalding-hot) • Phazon • Purple liquid |
| Gases | Dark vapor • Industrial-grade pesticide • Meta-viprium gas • Nohadin gas • Noxious gasses • Poison gas • Talvania Gas |
| Destructible | Barnacle-like material • Bendezium • Brinstone • Cordite • Denzium • Frigidite • Glass • Grobnite • Ice • Maldium • Meltable Metal • Metroid webs • Radion • Sandstone • Talloric Alloy • Vegetation • Zebetite Kelbium and Zafrite |
| Phazon | Red • Crystal • Black Crystal • Mass • Ore • Elite Nutrient Mix • Strain Vertigo • Phazite (Red) • Concentrated |
| Crystals | Ammolite/Witherite Shards • Black Phazon • Crystallized Fuel Gel • Crystals • Dark Sentinel • Lift • Liftvine • Light • Minerals • Phazon • Red magma • Sentinel |
| Ore | Urthic • Phazon |
| Miscellaneous | Invisible platform • Jovian steel • Liquid Resource • Liquid solution • Sand Vaccine "Metroid" • Waste • Water • Yellow goo • Yellow liquid |