tailings
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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
Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
“They’re going to look like an Amazon distribution warehouse; there’s no smokestack and massive tailings pond next to it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
They examined levels of cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead, metals linked to iron oxides, which are the primary component of the tailings.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
Slack was the tailings of the mine, coal with too much rock in it.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
