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    A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – waste material removed during mining...
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  • Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village...
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    quarry is under a lake formed by groundwater, and is situated next to a spoil tip. The quarry is close to two former prisons, the nearest being the former...
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    combustion can happen fairly commonly as, older spoil tips tend to be loose and tip over the edge of a pile. As spoil is mainly composed of carbonaceous material...
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  • Look up tip or TİP in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tip or TIP may refer to: Tip (gambling) Tip (gratuity) Tip (law enforcement) another term for advice...
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  • shielding them from the flow of slurry which struck the town after a spoil tip collapsed. Nansi Williams (née O'Brien) was born in 1922 in the Aberfan...
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    Monte Kali and Kalimanjaro are local colloquial names for the spoil heap or spoil tip that towers over the town of Heringen, Hesse, Germany. It is one...
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    Compressed air tank supports. The Etançon mine is surrounded by a small, flat spoil tip, formed lengthwise on the side of a natural undulation and it is situated...
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    October 1966, it became known for the Aberfan disaster, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults...
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    hill and landmark in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. It is the former spoil tip of the Judkins Quarry, which extracted granite in the area. Mount Judd...
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  • structure and repurposed "The Spoil", an episode of the TV series Justified Spoil tip, a pile built of accumulated spoil removed during mining This disambiguation...
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  • The material properties can vary considerably both within a spoil tip and from tip to tip. Skarżyńska, Krystyna M. (1995). "Reuse of coal mining wastes...
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  • surface. An example is the Great Haigh Sough. Spoil tip A spoil tip is a pile built of accumulated spoil - the overburden or other waste rock removed during...
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    Geleucht. This monument in the form of a mining lamp was to be built on the spoil tip Halde Rheinpreußen in Moers, lighting up at night. In 2007 after delays...
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    soil over the top of the roots of a tree collected from the wild. Gangue Spoil tip Tailings Kogel, Jessica Elzea (editor) (2006) Industrial minerals & rocks:...
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    spoil tips rather than natural hills. Geomorphology Inliers and outliers Spoil tip Table hill Volcanic cone Naumann: Section VII, pp. 61-62 Naumann: Section...
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  • classroom when the Aberfan disaster unfolded and the slurry from the colliery spoil tip hit the school. Beynon scooped up the five nearest children into his arms...
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    the site of a former colliery spoil tip. This 365-acre (1,480,000 m2) park is situated on the site of a former spoil tip of the former Betteshanger Colliery...
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    Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The country park is centred on a former spoil tip hill, known locally as "Picnic Mountain" (Welsh: Mynydd Picnic), rising...
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  • In social choice theory and politics, the spoiler effect or Arrow's paradox refers to a situation where a losing (that is, irrelevant) candidate affects...
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    granulated blast furnace slag Heavy metals Mill scale Pozzolan Slag (welding) Spoil tip Tailings Piatak, Nadine M.; Parsons, Michael B.; Seal, Robert R. (2015)...
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    the material left over from coal mining, usually as tailings piles or spoil tips. For every tonne of hard coal generated by mining, 400 kg (880 lb) of...
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    There are just over 2,500 coal spoil tips in Wales, with a large number classed as "high risk", following recent landslides in the South Wales Valleys...
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    Macintosh and built in between 1964 and 1972. The estate is built on top of a spoil tip from the creation of a nearby railway line. Dawson's Heights consists...
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    (ruins, a large concrete hopper, converted buildings, and two imposing spoil tips) remain. Before 1873, the Ronchamp coal mining company operated in the...
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    waste anthracite coal. In the 1966 Aberfan disaster in Wales, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, engulfing a school and killing 116 children and 28 adults....
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    those common in the cliffs around Lyme Regis, Dorset and in the Aberfan spoil tip disaster in Wales are evidence of this phenomenon. Similarly, a lahar...
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    The Halde Rheinpreußen is a spoil tip in the German city Moers which lies 70 metres (230 ft) above its ambit. It is part of the category Panoramas of...
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    (earthworks) – In civil engineering, creating a profile Spoil tip – Pile built of accumulated spoil Subgrade – Material underneath a road or track Terrace...
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    A spoil tip covered in rills and gullies due to erosion processes caused by rainfall: Rummu, Estonia...
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