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

• Tailings that were sufficiently coarse to be saleable, called “coarse” tailings or “new lime,” were sold as agricultural limestone, and NJZ stockpiled them near the plant where they could be loaded onto railcars and trucks.

• Griffiths et al., The Detoxification of Gold Mill Tailings with Hydrogen Perox- ide, J.

• Tailings water confinement is ensured by deposition in lined cells and by a perimeter hydraulic barrier with more than 40 pumping wells.A program for environmental monitoring (ground water quality, fauna, and dam stability inspection) and progressive rehabilitation of the tailings site is in place, at and around, the tailings site.A tailings site steering committee meets bi-annually and an Independent Tailings Review Board meets annually.

• MVC has the right to process tailings from both the Cauquenes and Colihues deposits and the Fresh Tailings from El Teniente up to 2037.

• Timing of Administrator’s action under Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978.

More Definitions of Tailings

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 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 finely ground material remaining from ore when metal is removed.

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

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.