1843 16 Sept. 854/1 Mine dust mixed with the lime, he believed, made the most perfect concrete.
1981 N. Gordimer 3 The window whose light was meshed by minute squares of the wire flyscreen, clogged with mine dust and dead gnats.
2008 W. R. Cullen vii. 315 In the late 1990s, eight to 10 tons of mine dust were recovered each day.