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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mining">mining</a>, <b>tailings</b> or <b>tails</b> are the materials left over after the process of <a href="page.php?w=mineral_processing">separating</a> the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (<a href="page.php?w=gangue">gangue</a>) of an <a href="page.php?w=ore">ore</a>. Tailings are different from <a href="page.php?w=overburden">overburden</a>, which is the <a href="page.php?w=waste">waste</a> rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being processed.</p><p>
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