What is the difference between spoils and tailing?

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Liana Thompson

13 May, 20:44

What is the difference between spoils and tailing?

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Rocco Chang · Answer 1

As nouns the difference between spoils and tailings is that spoils is that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty while tailings is the waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes.