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Concept information
Término preferido
mine tailings
Tipo
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Topic
Definición
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Material separated as refuse or separately treated as inferior in quality or value. The sand, gravel and cobbles which pass through sluices in placer mining. Refuse material resulting from the washing, concentration or treatment of ground ore. The residual after most of a valuable ore has been extracted.
Concepto genérico
Sinónimos
- mining tailings
Nota de alcance
- Use for the mining waste from hard rock mining; for the mining waste from open-pit mining USE mine spoil.
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URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/86132
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