mine tailing

ENVO:00000003 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·CLOSE REVIEWED

Mine tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Tailings 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

soil ENVO:00001998
anthropogenic environmental material ENVO:0010001

Also called

Tailings — GOLD
tailing — ENVO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00000003 'mine tailing' (CLOSE). Tailings are mine tailings in GOLD's mining context; ENVO names the singular. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Tailings'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.5a05c0fa5d)

Provenance

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