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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 14 January 2019 and 2 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Crispyman20.

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Untitled[edit]

This article has translated fairly well but is almost exclusively French in content and relevance. Does anyone have the expertise to expand it with UK, US, German or other material? Ballista 19:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article Boney piles is essentially the same thing and appears to be written from a US perspective; I have suggested that the two be merged. Quackdave 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Slag heap is a pile of tailings?[edit]

Is a slag heap really a pile of tailings, or a pile of slag, as the are two very different things, one is a waste product of mineral processing the other is a wast product of smelting.--Kelapstick (talk) 00:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting this. I agree. Slag is not tailings aka bony. Rnkotula (talk) 04:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not aboult slag. I propose it should be renamed 'Spoil tip'. Obscurasky (talk) 07:34, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've read through the article again and changed references which should say 'spoil', not 'slag'.

This is really a WP:ENGVAR issue. 'Slag heap' is the standard colloquial British English term for a spoil heap, particularly in coal mining areas. --Ef80 (talk) 21:52, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion[edit]

Let's do this only on Merge discussion.

Merge Spoil bank to Spoil tip[edit]

Shouldn't the article Spoil bank be merged with this one? It seems to me they are referring to the same thing. Also, Can we not define spoil tip as more generic than only the refuse from coal and ore mining? Doesn't it include waste from any sort of mining, as well as from quarrying? In the "slag heaps" section in Wikimedia commons, images include all of these.Catgirl (talk) 13:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Klbrain (talk) 23:40, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

terrykony[edit]

corrected the spelling of the transliteration from ukrainian according to the ukrainian wikipedia article
meaning: "cones of earth"? Some literal translation should be included in article. I'm sure about the "cone" part, but I can only guess about the "terri" part. See also ru:Террикон, uk:Терикон.

--BjKa (talk) 09:26, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed citations and added information[edit]

Added citations everywhere they were marked as needed, and corrected statistics that relied on them.
Added some additional information on the environments of soil tips.
Consider removing needs citation template?

Crispyman20 (talk) 03:55, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]