Is there an open-pit mine polluting your watershed?. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Guatemalan Sinkhole] Reference
Imagine: A massive open-pit coal mine next to a wilderness jewel. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Redford: Utah Approves a Mine Next to Bryce Canyon for Coal America Doesn't Need] Reference
Coal production occurs in open-pit extraction or underground mining. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Since the 1960s, Canadians have been digging it up in open-pit mines. From Wordnik.com. [Can U.S. Take The Heat Of Canada's Oil Practices?] Reference
The Baffinland open-pit mine is expected to be under construction until 2014. From Wordnik.com. [Rivals Join in Baffinland Offer] Reference
It's the world's largest open-pit diamond mine. 600 feet deep so far and vast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006] Reference
It's the world's largest open-pit diamond mine, 600 feet deep so far, and vast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007] Reference
All of the largest oil sands projects in the Athabasca area utilize open-pit mining. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of Canada] Reference
Rossing is Namibia's only uranium mine and is the world's largest open-pit uranium mine. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Manual mining techniques are mostly applied in soft rock in underground and open-pit mining. From Wordnik.com. [7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg] Reference
St. Louis-based Peabody is searching for a Chinese partner to develop an open-pit coal mine. From Wordnik.com. [Peabody Looks to Develop] Reference
Just check out this grossly beautiful panorama of the open-pit coal mine in Garzweiler, Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Training Ground for Future Terraformers] Reference
The huge space requirements of open-pit mining can mean the extensive destruction of vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
The vessel was then taken to an open-pit iron mine that would serve as the balloon's takeoff site. From Wordnik.com. [David Simons dies at 87; solo mission led to space flights] Reference
It appears that more and more often mining companies are doing open-pit mining to avoid such disasters. From Wordnik.com. [Did Another "Brownie" KILL Three Utah Mine Rescue Workers?] Reference
That's because they are gigantic open-pit mining operations - like those found everywhere around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Diane Francis: Buy Canadian oil sands production or China will] Reference
Excess PCBs were dumped in a nearby open-pit landfill or allowed to flow off the property with storm water. From Wordnik.com. [Monsanto's Harvest of Fear] Reference
One potential threat is the development of the proposed Windy-Craggy open-pit copper mine in British Columbia. From Wordnik.com. [Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, United States] Reference
In open-pit mining, huge amounts of materials may have to be produced and hauled for negligible raw ore grades. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
The traditional method of extracting the bitumen from the dirt involves large open-pit mines that scar the land. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Slips on Oil's Slide] Reference
Surface mining techniques include: open-pit mining, area strip mining, contour strip mining and hydraulic mining. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 10- Minerals] Reference
Similarly, residual metal values in disused underground or open-pit mines can be recovered by bacterial leaching. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
As in underground mining, the degree of mechanization of operations dictates production capacity in open-pit mining. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
For underground ore mining, this technique has only a limited application but it is quite suitable for open-pit mining. From Wordnik.com. [7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg] Reference
Manual winning or extraction of raw materials in underground and open-pit mining, mainly for soft and medium soft rock. From Wordnik.com. [7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg] Reference
But Canada's oil sands operations are the world's biggest open-pit mining operations so they have become an easy target. From Wordnik.com. [Diane Francis: Buy Canadian oil sands production or China will] Reference
"Sir, we traced the information about the circus to the crews operating the relay station, the open-pit mine operations ...". From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
As uranium ore is present in low concentrations, most uranium mining is volume intensive, and is undertaken as open-pit mining. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Globally Green] Reference
There are two methods currently used to extract bitumen from the ground: open-pit mining and in situ (Latin for “in place”). From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of Canada] Reference
Drilling of downward and possibly horizontally aligned blasting holes of underground and open-pit mining with hard or solid rock. From Wordnik.com. [7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg] Reference
Places I viewed as symbols of this so-called Promised Land have disappeared into clear cuts, drilling fields, and open-pit mines. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Redford: Why We Need a Bold Vision for Preserving Our Wilderness] Reference
Authorities there have threatened to ban open-pit mining, which would stall the development of a rich reserve of copper and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Indophil Stock Dives as Trading Resumes] Reference
Application or use seems right only for special works without compressed air infrastructure and in open-pit mining for hard sediments. From Wordnik.com. [7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg] Reference
But then again, one only needs to see the photos included in this Wikipedia entry on open-pit mine to get a fairly accurate prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Training Ground for Future Terraformers] Reference
Yet Mr. Yearley advised the board to double down on copper, produced from giant open-pit mines in the U.S. West, S.uth America and Africa. From Wordnik.com. [As Cox CEO, He Set the Bar High] Reference
The stability of open-pit mine walls will possibly be affected where steep slopes in permafrost overburden have been exposed for long periods of time. From Wordnik.com. [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference
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