Tailings is a form of land pollution, are materials left over once a valuable substance has been removed from rocks that have been mined.
Step-by-step explanation:
Tailings are byproduct substances that are left behind after indiscriminate mining from the products they are used in for mining like in the extraction of gold silver and copper ores. These tailings are usually fine rock particles.
They can often contain toxic particles and they are able to ruin the soil where the mining has happened and even reach the groundwater and pollute it well beyond usability.
They reach the ores because of their properties of extraction.