rejeitos

English translation: tailings

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Portuguese term or phrase:	rejeitos
English translation:	tailings
Entered by:	R. Alex Jenkins

21:25 Feb 23, 2010

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems / mining activities

Portuguese term or phrase: rejeitos

when you exploit ore from a deposit, part of what you take out of the ground will not be used and will be set aside and kept. Mining companies have to be careful about "rejeitos" due to possible environmental impacts.

Affonso Cunha

tailings

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A few links:

When applied to coal and oil sands mining, the term 'tailings' refers .... Tailing ponds are areas of refused mining tailings where the water borne refuse ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings

Tailings are waste products from the mining industry that are finely ground material left over in containment areas or discharged to receiving waters after ...
www.hydroqual.com/wr_tailings_mgmt.html

Tailings & Mine Waste 2010
Tailings and Mine Waste '10 is the next of a series of symposia on mill tailings management started at Colorado State University in 1978. ...
http://tailingsandminewaste.org/

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tailings

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rejects

Silvia Aquino

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Tailings

Nadja B Batdorf

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rejects

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low-grade iron ore (57⋅49% Fe2O3) rejects and heated to get iron oxides of 96–99⋅73% purity. ... modest effort to make use of these ore rejects to synthe- ...
www.springerlink.com/index/RV00QQ3KR73047T7.pdf
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Reextraction of nonferrous and noble metals from rejects of ...
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Therefore, we studied impregnation ore rejects from the Noril'sk ore ... Impregnation ore rejects of the Noril'sk concentration plant is comprised almost ...
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Recovery of SM gr. Small ore from IMB rejects at mine. - dgMarket ...
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Silvia Aquino
Brazil
Local time: 18:40
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Portuguese

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tailings

R. Alex Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 18:40
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Reference: Tailings

Reference information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings

Nadja B Batdorf
United States
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Portuguese

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