Spoil tip

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Spoil tip
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A spoil tip is a pile built of waste material removed during mining.[1] The word "spoil" is also used for material removed when digging a foundation, tunnel, or other large diggings. Spoil tip is also known by other names like a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip, bing, mine dump or mine waste dump.[2][3][4][5][6]

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Spoil tip at Jägersfreude, Saarbrücken

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