tailings

Finally, the waste product-known in the industry as "tailings" - is deposited in man-made ponds where further refining is done before the water is then discharged into the local watershed.

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So they store it in what's called tailings ponds, though the word pond hardly does them justice.

Can U.S. Take The Heat Of Canada's Oil Practices? 2010

So they store it in what's called tailings ponds, though the word pond hardly does them justice.

Can U.S. Take The Heat Of Canada's Oil Practices? 2010

So they store it in what's called tailings ponds, though the word pond hardly does them justice.

Can U.S. Take The Heat Of Canada's Oil Practices? 2010

Now that the top of the mesa was shaved off, the tailings were the tallest point around.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

So they store it in what's called tailings ponds, though the word pond hardly does them justice.

Can U.S. Take The Heat Of Canada's Oil Practices? 2010

The metal waste, known as tailings, would kill all aquatic life in the lake.

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He however said such was not the case with the Kayelekera project as the Paladin proposes to leave the tailings, which is the radioactive material left after processing and extracting uranium above the ground.

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Uranium mining and disposal of milling wastes called tailings and spent fuel create even more hazards.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

Most of the tailings are the excavated overburden rock and rejected sand; both can be stockpiled and used as backfill with little threat to the environment (Stosur and others, 1998).

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