The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SLAG which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1997.
Mining waste crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLAG | 50 % | 4 |
| TAILINGS | 50 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mining waste
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- strip mining
- toxic waste
- opencast mining
- mining engineer
- strip mine
- placer mining
- waste water
- scrap metal
- miners
- iron ore
- minerals
- coal mine
Crossword Answer definitions
SLAG noun- Waste material from a coal mine
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material
- Scoria associated with a volcano
- A coward
- (chiefly Cockney) a contemptible person, a scumbag
- A prostitute
- A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut
- To produce slag
- To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point
- To reduce to slag
- (sometimes with "off") to talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone)
- To spit
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SLAG
- Dross
- Refinery leftover
- Smeltery residue
- Smelting refuse
- Smelter residue
- Tailings
- Blast furnace by-product
- Smeltery waste
- Diss, in the UK
- Hot industrial waste