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What are tailings?

What are tailings? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of tailing
  2. (mining) the waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes
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The mill produced a lead concentrate, a zinc concentrate, and pyritic tailings.
This could affect threshing efficiency since tailings are returned directly to a combine's rotor or cylinder for rethreshing.
The uranium tailings damage the lining of the lung and increase the risk of developing cancer when breathed in.
Mine wastes have been generated over the last several centuries of mining, the two primary mining wastes being mine tailings and waste rock.
We've come to the Kennedy Mines Tailing Wheels, which were once these four huge wheels that carried the tailings, or residue, from the mines.
Thus, the present invention advantageously avoids the production of tailings sludges caused by clay dispersion.

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