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waste filling

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waste filling [′wāst ‚filĀ·iŋ]
(mining engineering)
Material used for support in heavy ground and in large stopes to prevent failure of rock walls and to minimize or control subsidence and to make it possible to extract pillars of ore left in the earlier stages of mining; material used for filling includes waste rock sorted out in the stopes or mined from rock walls, milltailing, sand and gravel, smelter slag, and rock from surface open cuts or quarries.


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