slag heap

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slag heap

n
(Mining & Quarrying) a hillock of waste matter from coal mining, etc
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terril

slag heap

n → Schlackenhalde f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slag heap

n → cumulo di scorie
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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THE destruction of a "Cofiwch Dryweryn" tribute which had been painted onto a landmark slag heap has sparked anger.
Slag heap Tryweryn sign defaced...sparking anger; LANDMARK MEMORIAL COVERED WITH NAME
ACOFIWCH Dryweryn tribute on the side of a Welsh slag heap has been destroyed.
TRIBUTE DESTROYED
Peter, 64 51 YEARS AGO (1966) )Today's giggle The collapse of a coal slag heap on to a school in the village of Aberfan, South Wales, killed 144 people, including 116 children.
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Ironically, the new Ynysowen Primary was constructed right on top of a slag heap, the oldest in the village said my grandfather, and needed specially designed foundations and walls that would flex with the undependable earth beneath.
MORNING SERIAL
That silver smelter has been closed for nearly a century but its slag heap is between Interstate 25 and the Eilers Heights neighborhood, just north of Mesa Avenue.
EPA starts superfund soil testing in Pueblo city parks
slag heap collapsed following rains in Hpakant, 350 kilometres north
Death toll reaches 110 in Myanmar mine mudslide, 100 missing
Some people have worked here for years and they've been thrown on the slag heap."
Coal company confirm 85 job losses at country's last mines
A most inauspicious English-language filmmaking debut for Daniel (brother of Tomas) Alfredson, "Kidnapping" will hold a handful of cinemas hostage en route to the VOD slag heap.
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
The three-kilometre Miners' Trail runs through Jubilee Woods, a former colliery and slag heap, making use of its slopes, humps and bumps.
New biking trail opens at old colliery site
"There has been a build up, causing stress to that slag heap, and that is what is causing us concern, as a service," he said.
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