tailings definition
tailings means material rejected from a mill after most of the valuable minerals have been extracted.
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.
tailings means waste material resulting from the bene- ficiation of crushed ore at a concentrator.
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 finely ground material remaining from ore when metal is removed.
tailings means waste material resulting from the washing, concentration or treatment of crushed ore.
tailings means materials left over after the mineral ore is crushed and valuable minerals are extracted from it;.
tailings means the materials left over after the primary process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomical fraction of ore and excludes waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being processed.
tailings means material rejected from a mill after most of the valuable minerals have been extracted. “Ton” means a short ton (2,000 pounds).