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tailings

Rock and other waste materials removed as impurities when waste mineral material is separated from the metal in an ore.

Subject: 
Environmental Science [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 15 - Geologic Resources: Nonrenewable Mineral and Energy Resources [2]
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