Crossword-Solution: TAILINGS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Mining residue | 1 answer |
| Refuse from ground ore | 1 answer |
| Residue, in mining | 1 answer |
| Mining waste | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECEZAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TAILINGS (5)
There were piles and piles of tailings where we toiled with pick and pan, And turning round a bend I heard a roar, And there a giant gold-ship of the very newest plan Was tearing chunks of pay-dirt from the shore.
Nothing but coarse gold for you-all, that's your way, not getting half of it out of the ground and losing into the tailings half of what you-all do get.
These secondary marks were called "tailings." For many years electricians had tried in vain to overcome this difficulty.
The tree-ferns that had luxuriated in its spray had died around the dried-up pool, and the high ravine was only a big trench half filled up with the refuse of excavations and tailings.
She could not be made to kick at quartz tailings, at a barrel of Boston crackers, or at the head or shin of "Nigger Pete." An artistic discrimination economized her surplus energy.
Quotes with TAILINGS (1)
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2005).