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 material rejected from a mill after most of the valuable minerals have been extracted. “Ton” means a short ton (2,000 pounds).
tailings means refuse materials resulting from the washing, concentration, or treatment of mineralized material. “ton” means a short ton (2,000 pounds).