What are the ores found in vanilla minecraft?

Answer 1

There are currently 7 ores in vanilla minecraft 1.6. They can all be crafted into their respected blocks by putting nine of the same pure ingot, dye or dust into a crafting table i.e. not the ores. They are: coal, iron, gold, diamond, lapis lazuli, redstone and emerald. Iron and gold ore have to be cooked in a furnace to retrieve their respective ingots. Here is an image of the 7 ores:

There is another ore called the nether quartz ore which is used to craft solid quartz in minecraft.