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What is a coal mining tipple?

From the US Internal Revenue Service definition for tax purposes:
Tipple - Originally the place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of their coal, and still used in that sense, although now more generally applied to the surface structures of a mine, including the preparation plant and loading tracks.
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