Synonyms for tailings
tail·ings

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1. List of paraphrases for "tailings":

   residues, residue, sterile, residuals, residual, waste, barren, wastes

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1. Dermot Ross-Brown:

   A tailings dam may look safe, but it's still retaining a lot of moisture behind it, they're inherently dangerous structures.

2. Adam Matthews:

   Tailings dams are amongst some of the largest engineered structures in the world and we have seen the catastrophic consequences earlier this year in Brazil when they collapse, we note that many companies already operate to a very high standard as evidenced by some of the disclosures, but this is not universal across the sector and dams are continuing to fail, putting lives and the environment at risk.

3. Will Gibson:

   The fire sits south of our lease with a series of current and former tailings facilities that form a natural fire break.

4. Dean Dalla Valle:

   We will only start when it is absolutely safe, we will need to learn from the investigation. The way it will start won’t involve the current tailings dams.

5. Bruno Oberle:

   It is vital that we continue to learn and understand what must be done to eliminate tailings facility failures.