Tailings definition

Tailings means material rejected from a mill after most of the valuable minerals have been extracted.

Tailings means waste material resulting from the bene- ficiation of crushed ore at a concentrator.

Tailings means material rejected from a mill after most of the valuable minerals have been extracted. “tonne” means a metric tonne and has the weight of 1,000 kg or 2,204.6 pounds.

Examples of Tailings in a sentence

• The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act, (UMTRCA) expanded the categories of radioactive materials covered by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA) known as “11e.(2) byproduct material.” This byproduct material is broadly defined to encompass all tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content.

• Tailings ponds shall be dewatered to the extent necessary to provide an adequate foundation for the approved post-mining use.

• The detoxified tailings are then pumped to the Tailings Storage Facility (“TSF”).

• Inc., May, 1981, “Engineer’s Report Second Phase Design - Cell 3 Tailings Management System White Mesa Uranium Project Blanding, Utah Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc.

• Inc., March, 1983, “Construction Report Second Phase Tailings Management System White Mesa Uranium Project Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc.”, unpublished company report, 18 pp., 3 tables, 4 figures, 5 appendices.

More Definitions of Tailings

Tailings means material rejected from the mill after the recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted;

Tailings means the waste solids or slurries that remain after the treatment of minerals by separation processes (e.g. crushing, grinding, size-sorting, flotation and other physico-chemical techniques) to remove the valuable minerals from the less valuable rock;

Tailings means the remaining portion of a metal-bearing ore after some or all of such metal, such as ura- nium, has been extracted.

Tailings means finely ground material remaining from ore when metal is removed.

Tailings means waste material resulting from benefici- ation of crushed ferrous minerals at a concentrator or from wash- ing, concentration, or treatment of crushed ferrous minerals.

Tailings means waste material resulting from the washing, concentration or treatment of crushed ore.

Tailings means material that has been mined, processed, and disposed of on the Settling Defendant’s Property.