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Tailings Pile

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-027605

A pile consisting primarily of any combination of overburden from a mining operation and tailings from a mineral mining, beneficiation, or processing operation.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-027605
FieldEnvironment
SubjectHealth and safety
ReferencesHazard Ranking System Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-027605",
  "term": "Tailings Pile",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A pile consisting primarily of any combination of overburden from a mining operation and tailings from a mineral mining, beneficiation, or processing operation.",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "Hazard Ranking System Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/tailings-pile/"
}

Record 27,605 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.