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  1. Tailings - Wikipedia

    Coal refuse, also known as coal waste, rock, slag, coal tailings, waste material, rock bank, culm, boney, or gob, is the material left over from coal mining, usually as tailings piles or spoil tips.

  2. What are Tailings - Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

    Tailings are a by-product of mining. After ore containing an economically-recoverable commodity is mined from the earth, that commodity is extracted in a processing plant or mill. After the commodity …

  3. Tailings.info What Are Tailings? - Their nature and production

    Tailings consist of ground rock and process effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant. Mechanical and chemical processes are used to extract the desired product from the run of the mine …

  4. What Are Mining Tailings? – The Institute for Environmental Research ...

    Jun 14, 2025 · Tailings are the fine-grained waste materials left over after mineral processing, while mine waste rock is the rock that is removed to access the ore body. Both can pose environmental …

  5. Meet a U.S. Start-Up Trying to Break China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly

    4 days ago · Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to compete with Chinese suppliers.

  6. Tailings Definition - Intro to Geology Key Term | Fiveable

    Tailings are the waste materials left over after the extraction of valuable minerals from ore. These materials, often a mixture of finely crushed rock and chemicals used in the mining process, can pose …

  7. Phoenix Tailings | The Future of Rare Earth Refining in America

    Phoenix Tailings has brought rare earth refining back to American soil. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Phoenix has overcome the historical challenges of traditional processing to enable clean …

  8. Tailings are not the same as waste rock, the latter being soil or rock or other material that covers or surrounds an orebody and that is displaced during mining but is not processed.

  9. About Tailings - Global Tailings Review

    Tailings is a common by-product of the process of extracting valuable minerals and metals from mined ore. They usually take the form of a liquid slurry made of fine mineral particles, created as mined ore …

  10. Tailings (TL0511) | UNDRR

    Tailings are the fine-grained waste material remaining after the metals and minerals recoverable from processed soil or rock have been extracted. The material is produced at the 'tail end' of the process …