NALT

Preferred term

mine tailings

Topic

Material separated as refuse or separately treated as inferior in quality or value. The sand, gravel and cobbles which pass through sluices in placer mining. Refuse material resulting from the washing, concentration or treatment of ground ore. The residual after most of a valuable ore has been extracted.

wastes

mining tailings

Use for the mining waste from hard rock mining; for the mining waste from open-pit mining USE mine spoil.

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

69738

Spanish

residuos mineros

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/86132

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Created 7/21/06, last modified 5/5/17