Category:Tailings
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- English:Tailings— the materials left overafter the processof separating the valuable elements from the uneconomic portion of an ore.
- Also called mine dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue, or slickens — often left aspilesandartificial hills.
- They can be produced from underground or surface mining operations.
- NOTE: Tailings are distinct fromslag heapsofoverburden,which is the waste materials overlying an ore or mineral vein that are displaced duringsurface mining—without being processed.
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Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Media in category "Tailings"
The following 78 files are in this category, out of 78 total.
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Absinkweiher.JPG 3,264 × 2,448; 1.73 MB
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Antamina Mine Tailings Pond.jpg 944 × 630; 240 KB
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Bergbau Tailing Medet im Flussbett des Flusses Toplonitza.jpg 640 × 480; 48 KB
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BrunoCreekTailingsImpoundment2009.jpg 1,024 × 680; 284 KB
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EROSION OF TAILINGS PILES AT INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO.'S MINE - NARA - 544064.jpg 3,000 × 2,015; 1.22 MB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (1).jpg 768 × 576; 151 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (2).jpg 768 × 576; 150 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (3).jpg 1,078 × 768; 213 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (4).jpg 1,536 × 1,152; 680 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (5).jpg 768 × 576; 195 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (6).jpg 768 × 576; 185 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny (7).jpg 576 × 768; 153 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio - UncleVinny.jpg 768 × 576; 121 KB
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Gold dredge tailings - panoramio.jpg 768 × 576; 202 KB
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GroutCurtain.gif 384 × 283; 25 KB
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Highland Valley Copper Mine Tailings (Former Bethlehem Mine).jpg 1,280 × 853; 833 KB
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Highland Valley Tailings Lake, near Logan Lake BC.jpg 1,280 × 853; 927 KB
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IAA Culmitzsch Wolfersdorf.JPG 4,000 × 3,000; 4.97 MB
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IAA Culmitzsch.png 8,224 × 1,635; 23.22 MB
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Lucernemines Pennsylvania Coal Dump.JPG 2,816 × 1,765; 1.07 MB
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Mikobatamain-f979c3a2.JPG 400 × 299; 31 KB
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MILL AND MINE TAILINGS PILES LEFT FROM ABANDONED GOLD MILL - NARA - 543848.jpg 2,031 × 3,000; 1.36 MB
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Mining-wastes.jpg 2,000 × 1,333; 2.06 MB
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Moab disposal cell.jpg 3,872 × 2,592; 6.37 MB
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Moab Mill Tailings Removal Project.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 2.11 MB
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Moab Tailings Department of Energy Remedial Action.jpeg 4,000 × 2,796; 2 MB
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Moab uranium mill tailings pile.jpg 1,024 × 680; 145 KB
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NEW SEEDING ON URANIUM TAILING PILE AT UNION CARBIDE PLANT - NARA - 543802.jpg 2,024 × 3,000; 945 KB
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Old mine (4843001412).jpg 3,119 × 2,344; 6.5 MB
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Recovery Act Shipments of Mill Tailings Finish at 2.6 Million.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 4.92 MB
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Red Mountain Town, Colorado, c. 1890.png 2,120 × 1,468; 3.93 MB
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Shinarump Mine Waste Rock.jpg 2,992 × 2,000; 2.26 MB
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Potgieterus Platinum Operations construction of tailings wall.jpg 3,264 × 1,836; 1.03 MB
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South Africa-Gold mining-tailings-001.jpg 3,888 × 2,592; 3.64 MB
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St Joe State Park 11.jpg 3,132 × 2,124; 2.86 MB
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StJoe State Park 05.jpg 3,648 × 2,736; 3.78 MB
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StJoe State Park 15.jpg 3,648 × 2,736; 4.3 MB
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StreicherH.JPG 4,000 × 3,000; 2.56 MB
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Tailing piles at Colorado Smelting and Refining Co - NARA - 298118.jpg 3,000 × 2,372; 1.47 MB
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Tailing piles at Colorado Smelting and Refining Co., Corra operation. - NARA - 298117.jpg 2,309 × 3,000; 1.39 MB
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Tailing piles at Colorado Smelting and Refining Co., Corra operation. - NARA - 298123.jpg 3,000 × 2,288; 1.24 MB
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Tailing piles at Colorado Smelting and Refining Co., High Ore operation. - NARA - 298125.jpg 3,000 × 2,248; 1.26 MB
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Tailing pond along Sucker Creek - panoramio.jpg 2,144 × 1,424; 1.88 MB
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Tailings at Green Mountain operation - NARA - 298122.jpg 3,000 × 2,300; 1.26 MB
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Tailings at Mountain Con. operation - NARA - 298120.jpg 3,000 × 1,542; 822 KB
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Tailings at Parrot operation - NARA - 298131.jpg 3,000 × 1,635; 876 KB
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Tailings at Parrot operation - NARA - 298132.jpg 3,000 × 1,613; 904 KB
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Tailings dump of Colusa-Parrot Concentrator looking southeast. - NARA - 298152.jpg 3,000 × 2,293; 1.28 MB
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TAILINGS PILES AT CASTLE DOME MINE - NARA - 544027.jpg 2,024 × 3,000; 1.44 MB
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TAILINGS PILES AT THE ANACONDA CO.'S TWIN BUTTES MINE - NARA - 544089.jpg 2,026 × 3,000; 1.48 MB
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TAILINGS PILES FROM MILES AND SMELTER - NARA - 544055.jpg 3,000 × 2,022; 1.08 MB
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Tailings, Lexington Mill - NARA - 298143.jpg 2,333 × 3,000; 1.43 MB
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Tailings, Lexington Mine - NARA - 298138.jpg 2,352 × 3,000; 1.69 MB
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Uranium waste near Rifle, Colorado.jpg 2,814 × 1,970; 2.07 MB
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WATER LEAKS FROM MINE TAILINGS POND AT IDARADO MILL - NARA - 543666.jpg 2,034 × 3,000; 1.57 MB
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Übergelaufene Tailing.jpg 2,816 × 1,880; 1.95 MB
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Веер - panoramio.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 1.27 MB
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Красивый вид на горе - panoramio.jpg 3,648 × 2,736; 4.14 MB
