| The mill produced a lead concentrate, a zinc concentrate, and pyritic tailings. |
| This could affect threshing efficiency since tailings are returned directly to a combine's rotor or cylinder for rethreshing. |
| The lake by the doorway was barely more than a large pond now, heavy and odorous with effluents leached from the tailings by rains. |
| A convenient measure of the sloppiness of a tailings product can be made using the Atterberg Liquid Limit Apparatus. |
| The uranium tailings damage the lining of the lung and increase the risk of developing cancer when breathed in. |
| Mine wastes have been generated over the last several centuries of mining, the two primary mining wastes being mine tailings and waste rock. |
