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tailings

materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore
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tailings

Summary

tailings ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,995 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tailings is a type of industrial waste[2].
  • tailings is a type of anthropogenic environmental material[3].
  • tailings is a type of sludge[4].
  • tailings's Commons category is recorded as Tailings[5].
  • tailings's facet of is recorded as environmental impact of mining[6].
  • tailings's by-product of is recorded as extractive metallurgy[7].
  • tailings's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000003[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include industrial waste[2], anthropogenic environmental material[3], and sludge[4].

Why It Matters

tailings ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,995 views/month).[1] tailings has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] tailings is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Gazetteer. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    By-product of → extractive metallurgy
    Facet of → environmental impact of mining
    Verbaalpina id → C5024
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C5024, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
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