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2. Noun. (plural of tailing) ¹

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Definition of Tailings

1. tailing [n] - See also: tailing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailings

Literary usage of Tailings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1900)
"THE heap of tailings and slimes undergoing treatment by the cyanide method ... Had the whole of the tailings been saved, it would have meant something more ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"I am referring particularly to modern up-to-date milling plants discharging tailings which under existing conditions cannot be further treated or from which ..."

3. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards, Earl Smith Bardwell, Edwin G. Goodwin (1909)
"DISPOSAL OF tailings. — is such that the tailings go by gravi accumulates and the water runs to \ the tailings go to settling ponds. A tailings to pass off ..."

4. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"tailings.—The disposal of the tailings is one of the most important points ... Where there is not sufficient fall to enable the tailings to be removed from ..."

5. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"Pay-dirt and tailings are property. —The pay-dirt and tailings of a miner, ... The boundaries of ground for the deposit of tailings must be distinctly ..."

6. The Australian Digest by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1900)
"tailings — Abandonment of tailings—Usage of trade as to tailings— ... On the hearing of an action to recover tailings, the residue of stone brought by ..."

7. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"In order to study the temperature regime of the rock in the tailings, special observations were made for which thermal sensors were installed in boreholes ..."

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