mullock

Meanings

Plural: mullocks

Noun

• Rubbish, waste matter.
• Mining waste or ore processing waste:
• Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
• Mining waste or ore processing waste:
• Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
• Nonsense, rubbish.
• A mess; the result of a blunder.

Verb

• To clear waste material out of a mine.