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

  • Urgent maintenance of tailings and selected waste dumps (erosion protection) Tailings Nos.


More Definitions of Tailings

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