tailings
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Coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings are usually treated as major waste problems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Its advanced chromatographic separation process is designed to recover critical minerals from several streams: mixed rare-earth carbonate, recycled magnets, mine tailings, industrial residues, zinc byproducts, electronic scrap and other secondary materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Federal Court judge Stephen Burley described how four large open-pit mines, a railway, tailings dam, waste dumps and a stockpile were strewn across the lands of the Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Twenty-five workers were inside the gold mine when the tailings dam - a structure which holds mining waste - burst on 25 March.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
I set down my water bottle and brush my gloved hand over years of tailings.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
