tailings

tailings
Refuse, particularly from mining operations. Ore which has been taken out of a mine and from which all of the valuable mineral content has not been extracted. Commissioner of Internal Revenue v Kennedy Mining & Milling Co. (CA9 Cal) 125 F2d 399.

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