They got some new technology that makes even the tailings valuable.

When there was nothing else to do, one could always "screen tailings."

Tailings present a long term cost to the mining industry.

I knew the tailings area from my own fishing trips.

The tailings in the river greatly affect the water quality.

The original pit is now being used to store tailings.

Beginning in February, the mill was to process only old tailings.

There are two small tailings dams right in the city centre.

A subtle movement in the tailings across the river drew my attention.

What are uranium tailings and how can they affect my health?

Since then, mine tailings have taken over what was once the northeast part of the lake.

The upper part of the canyon is filled with tailings.

I cruised back to the island again by way of the tailings.

When the ore was processed, the tailings were shot into space.

Tailings from the mining operation are all that remain today.

Those hills out there are too regular to be anything except mine tailings.

You can see two distinct piles of material away from the tailings.

Less dense material flows out of the box as tailings.

Today very little remains except for rubble, tailings and much waste rock.

I sat on the tailings of my discontent, staring out the window, thinking nothing.

Mine tailings were spread over the site, and the area was planted with grass.

The tailings had filled the canyon bottom, creating the little flat.

Now we went among the heaps of tailings where there was no path.

The study will further determine the final land use plan of the Tailings impoundment areas.

Then he dumped the tailings and filled the rocker once more.

A large part of the suburb is currently taken up by a mine dump.

He left his horse and ran through the grass towards the mine dump.

How far is it from your mine dump to the nearest bank?"

Big King came down the path that skirted the mine dump.

The Cason mine dump was the world highest man made mountain.

They climbed down the mine dump and went in silence to where the Ford was parked.

All bergenite samples have been found in old mine dump sites.

The machine gun opened from the scrubby bush at the base of the nearest mine dump.

For hills we have mine dumps covered with grass.

Twenty-three heaps of waste and 13 mining dumps have been identified.

There's a side road round the east end of the Little Sister Mine dump.

That night up at the mine dump, I would have staked my life Max wasn't lying.

'That is a mine dump, my brother, a mountain built by men from the rocks they dig up from below.

The Little Sister Mine dump rose up next to them, steep and white in the starlight.

Even the mine dumps seemed softened.

The rangers were backed up by rifle-toting mine guards stationed on the mine dump.

Schadeberg took her to a Johannesburg mine dump and photographed her in a bikini.

After 18 months of development, Caterpillar's new 797 mining dump truck will be the largest truck in the world when it rolls out early next year.

The discovery site was a mine dump of a hydrothermal ore deposit where it occurs with cesbronite and quartz.

Beyond them reared the white mine dump; some mineral in the powdered rock had leaked out in long yellow stains down its sides.

Today when approaching Uis, the first thing you see is a huge white mountain which is in fact the old mine dump for processed tin ore.

Excerpt: "Without the gold mines Johannesburg would not have been here, and the mine dumps are what's left of that era," says Hermann.

His attorney, T G Norris, began to sell off parts of the property including the rights to the mine dump and tailings, to other mining concerns.

"That's why the mine dumps are so specifically 'Johannesburg': they are handmade and iconic and they represent the reasons why we're here."

A "Mine Dump" is shown adjacent to the Montour Railroad tracks and South Park Road.