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  • A spoil tip (also called a spoil bank, boney pile, gob pile, bing, batch or pit heap) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – the overburden or other waste rock removed during coal and ore mining.

    Gob Pile, Coal Ash Chronicles (emphasis added)

    March 15, 2016

  • MaryW: Your excellent accumulated spoil belongs on this list:

    https://www.wordnik.com/lists/unwanted-matter

    Love your many contributions!

    March 16, 2016