Tailings
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tailings-162-2069941
title:
Tailings
text:
In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different from overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being processed. The extraction of minerals from ore can be done two ways: placer mining, which uses water and gravity to concentrate the valuable minerals, or hard rock mining, whic
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Materials left over from the separation of valuable minerals from ore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings
date created:
2004-02-15T01:36:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T14:33:27Z
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