Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
anciens remblais
English translation:
backfill, slag heaps
Added to glossary by
jeantrans (X)
Sep 3, 2011 05:33
12 yrs ago
French term
jeantrans (X)
anciens remblais
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Mining & Minerals / Gems
Les minerais des anciens remblais ont constitué l’alimentation principale de XXX
les deux premières années qui ont suivi son démarrage. Leur proportion dans
l'alimentation de ce concentrateur a diminué au fur et à mesure, jusqu’à
s’annuler, au profit des minerais extraits de la carrière.
Thanks in advance ...
les deux premières années qui ont suivi son démarrage. Leur proportion dans
l'alimentation de ce concentrateur a diminué au fur et à mesure, jusqu’à
s’annuler, au profit des minerais extraits de la carrière.
Thanks in advance ...
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | backfill, slag heaps |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 | old dumps |
piazza d
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| 3 | olld landfill |
Alan Gardiner
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| 3 | previous workings |
kashew
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| 4 -2 | ancient mounds |
Etchart
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Change log
Sep 3, 2011 06:18: writeaway changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Tech/Engineering"
Proposed translations
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backfill, slag heaps
Really, more context is necessary. What kind of mine (underground, open pit?). What is the history of the mine, its methods, and above all its method of disposal of overburden or waste?
Assuming it is an open pit mine there are several possibilities, I feel. Unless you are lucky enough to have diamonds or whatever sitting on the surface waiting to be picked up, you will have to dig down to the diamond layer. The earth removed from above that layer has to be put somewhere, if only temporarily, and it might be placed as slag heaps, as embankments, or spread in thin layers over a large area. Once the diamonds in the pit had been depleted to the minimum economic level, it is possible - but probably highly unlikely, especially in third-world countries - that the excavated material was put back in the hole as backfill. The economic climate having changed, and diamonds (or whatever) having gained in value, it might have again become economical to mine the diamond-poor ground abandoned as uneconomic previously. To get to it, of course, they would have to re-excavate the backfill, processing it in the process because, there too, there may be ore (or whatever) that is now worth extracting.
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Note added at 8 hrs (2011-09-03 14:22:02 GMT)
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Re. the requirement, or not, to translate ancien, to my way of thinking, no.
The 'back' of "backfill" sort of fulfils that function. After all, backfill fills a hole created previously.
As for "slag heaps", the same applies, especially if, as I have understood the context at least, they have only recently started reworking the site: it would be unlikely that they should suddenly decide to rework what they mined only last week.
Of course it may be clear in the text that there are nouveaux remblais as well, though the fact that they reworked the "old" ones for two years (at least) before working 100% freshly excavated material suggests not, to me.
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Note added at 8 hrs (2011-09-03 14:24:12 GMT)
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That said, if it were to be translated, I'd probably chose "previous".
Assuming it is an open pit mine there are several possibilities, I feel. Unless you are lucky enough to have diamonds or whatever sitting on the surface waiting to be picked up, you will have to dig down to the diamond layer. The earth removed from above that layer has to be put somewhere, if only temporarily, and it might be placed as slag heaps, as embankments, or spread in thin layers over a large area. Once the diamonds in the pit had been depleted to the minimum economic level, it is possible - but probably highly unlikely, especially in third-world countries - that the excavated material was put back in the hole as backfill. The economic climate having changed, and diamonds (or whatever) having gained in value, it might have again become economical to mine the diamond-poor ground abandoned as uneconomic previously. To get to it, of course, they would have to re-excavate the backfill, processing it in the process because, there too, there may be ore (or whatever) that is now worth extracting.
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Note added at 8 hrs (2011-09-03 14:22:02 GMT)
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Re. the requirement, or not, to translate ancien, to my way of thinking, no.
The 'back' of "backfill" sort of fulfils that function. After all, backfill fills a hole created previously.
As for "slag heaps", the same applies, especially if, as I have understood the context at least, they have only recently started reworking the site: it would be unlikely that they should suddenly decide to rework what they mined only last week.
Of course it may be clear in the text that there are nouveaux remblais as well, though the fact that they reworked the "old" ones for two years (at least) before working 100% freshly excavated material suggests not, to me.
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Note added at 8 hrs (2011-09-03 14:24:12 GMT)
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That said, if it were to be translated, I'd probably chose "previous".
Peer comment(s):
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B D Finch
: Though I think you needed to translate "ancien".
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See added note.
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| agree |
Lara Barnett
3 hrs
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| agree |
Allison Wright (X)
2 days 1 hr
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Comment: "Thanks to all of you!"
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ancient mounds
Ce sont des formations géologiques appartenantes à l’holocène (âgées environ 10 - 12 000 années). Elles sont formées par l’accumulation de coquilles (shell mounds), de sable (sand mounds), etc.
Ce document en anglais en est bien un example :
Sedimentary architecture and genesis of Holocene shallow-water mud-mounds, northern Belize
Tu peux le lire avec ce lien en bas
Ce document en anglais en est bien un example :
Sedimentary architecture and genesis of Holocene shallow-water mud-mounds, northern Belize
Tu peux le lire avec ce lien en bas
4 hrs
Alan Gardiner
Native in English
19 years translation experience.
Native in: English 
Works in: Arabic to English, Spanish to English, French to English, and 3 more.
olld landfill
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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-09-03 09:50:51 GMT)
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Sorry meant to say old landfill
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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-09-03 09:50:51 GMT)
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Sorry meant to say old landfill
10 hrs
previous workings
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Note added at 10 heures (2011-09-03 15:55:22 GMT)
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Or simply "spoil dumps"?
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Note added at 10 heures (2011-09-03 15:55:22 GMT)
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Or simply "spoil dumps"?
Discussion
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