# tailings

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

**Wikidata**: [Q1784525](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1784525)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/tailings


## References

1. Gazetteer
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)