Geotechnical Properties of Mine Tailings | Journal of …
The specific gravity of the coarse and fine copper tailings are 2.77 and 2.76, respectively, which are smaller than those of the iron tailings but slightly larger than those of natural soils. Fig. 1 indicates that the mass percentage of grain size less than 0.075 mm is 14.9% for the coarse iron tailings, 78.4% for the fine iron tailings, 14.24% ...