How to Use gangue in a Sentence
gangue
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What is proposed is not just to use fly ash (the waste left after burning coal), but also something called gangue.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 May 2026
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The material was extracted from coal gangue, which is the ultra-hard, toxic rock waste left behind after mining and washing coal.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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What’s more, China already has the industrial base to use waste materials like fly ash and gangue as a viable resource for metals.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 May 2026
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Specialized facility China’s coal gangue is expected to be around 7 billion tonnes.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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While attempts to recycle gangue date back to the 1950s, the economic incentive shifted after 2010 as natural sand supplies tightened and Beijing locked in its national carbon targets.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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