Wort des Tages
8 September 2026
tailings
The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
Warum dieses Wort
Managing them is one of the largest long-term liabilities in the extraction industry, and the problem outlasts the mine by decades.
In use
We've had the survey crew out on the tailings dam all week checking the freeboard after that rain.
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