Sentence examples for tailings from inspiring English sources
The phrase "tailings" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of mining and refers to the materials left over after the extraction of valuable minerals or metals from ore. Example: "The mining company is responsible for managing the tailings to prevent environmental contamination."
noun
The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes
Putting his jet at Mr Kabila's disposal helped, and on April 16th his company signed a $1 billion deal to recycle the tailings of the Kolwezi copper mine and build a plant to produce 200,000 tonnes a year of zinc at Kipushi.
Also inland, copper and gold mines jettison their tailings into the river systems, for which compensation is paid to the poor communities along the riverbanks.People lived in splendid isolation in the highlands until missionaries, miners and kiaps (colonial officials) arrived in the 1920s and 1930s.
This would have turned several Andean lakes into reservoirs or tailings ponds.
In addition, both developed and developing countries generate vast quantities of construction and demolition debris, industrial effluent, mine tailings, sewage residue and agricultural waste.
These tailings are not just a harmless inconvenience; they often contain poisonous heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium and lead.
The Pembina Institute, a local environmental think-tank, claims that a lot of the mature, fine tailings were merely transferred to other, larger lakes; Suncor says not.
Some of them leach their waste into the ground, says Pembina, although how much is uncertain.Suncor is promising to spend another C$1.2 billion to deal with its tailings.
Once known as "The Uranium Capital of the World," it is still dealing with radioactive mill-tailings from the last boom: that has cost the government some $500m.Still, though SRX's new property, Shootaring, is 160 miles (260 km) from Moab, such distances mean little in the West.
Another author describes a large Marion excavator disintegrating in a mine-tailings dump, broken and rusted, after having been ruined by zek operators.
But in China the low cost of delivery and the high cost of property are feeding an e-tailing frenzy.Online retailing had lagged in China, thanks both to a relative scarcity of internet access and the lack of a trusted payment system for e-commerce.
If enough traders acted together, they would have got around the BBA's topping-and-tailing safeguard and banks would have been selling interest-rate bets at the same time as distorting interest rates.
