Crossword-Solution: TAILINGS
We have 4 clues for the answer “TAILINGS”
| 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
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2005).