Residue, in mining

Usage examples of tailings.

Disposal of the displaced dirt could be managed by detonating a nuke to create a cavern big enough to accept the tailings of the mole.

A fly-fisher led us to remains in the tailings near the riverbank yesterday.

Seen from the air, the tailings made snaky patterns curling back to the river again.

Dark as a hunter’s thoughts, not enough moon to help, the innocent romantic gleam of riffles on water between the tailings to the south and the low cliffs on the north side.

It was nearly two hours before noon and it occurred to me that the time might best be spent checking available routes to and from the tailings areas.

I’d marked several routes on the map, where I could get very near tailings or sandbars from Sacto to Folsom.

I decided my ’coon was a deer, and split my attention between the tailings and the innocent channel to my right.

I had wanted to see something safe, and I had seen it, and somewhere up in the tailings a fresh rumble told me the alien hunter was not far off.

Standing to gaze over the windshield I could see where the “deer” had moved over the tailings, leaving a dull dark gleam of moist trail on the stones.

I spotted more damp stones just ­below the crest of the tailings ravine and followed.

I applied half throttle down the slope, passed across the river near enough to spot telltale moisture climbing the tailings, and gunned the turbo.

I’d found a big water pocket, one of those places where a rockslide shuts off a small valley in the tailings and, over the years, becomes a dead lake.

But ugly as it was, on Earth, when you were through with a bucket of rock, the tailings just sat there, seldom harming anybody.

But it's not enough for the Oberoni, who hate tailings even more than captains do.

The girl stood between Ludlow and Bursar Tailings, with a look on her face even stonier than the troll's calcified countenance.