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尾鉱 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tailings noun The waste material left over after valuable minerals have been extracted from ore during mining.

Senses

尾鉱 is used for these senses in English:

  • tailings (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.

tailings — full definition

  1. noun The waste material left over after valuable minerals have been extracted from ore during mining.
  2. noun The lower-quality remnants of a distillation or milling process.