The "overburden" is placed in an adjacent valley fill while workers use enormous equipment to mine the coal. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature] Reference
Essentially, what you see is the adjustments there in backlog is mainly related to our long-term overburden projects. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
The mineral reserve is extracted after the overlying material, called overburden is removed. From Wordnik.com. [Strip mining] Reference
This does not include the "overburden," as it is called -- all the dirt that must be removed to get at the coal. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference
"overburden", standing in the way of getting at coal. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
This extreme extractivemethod cheaply and efficiently removes meddlesome "overburden" (a.k.a. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Perks: Fools on Mountaintop] Reference
She did not want to overburden her two companions. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Establish the average thickness of the overburden. From Wordnik.com. [4. Testing and Quality Control] Reference
Eventually, it will be necessary to remove more overburden. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
And well worth the excavation of hundreds of feet of overburden. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
And again, so did those whose main thing is, let's not overburden. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2002] Reference
It would overburden state services, including hospitals and schools. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2004] Reference
We should remember that and not overburden the economy going forward. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2009] Reference
It threatens to overburden tomorrow's workers -- our children -- with taxes. From Wordnik.com. [We Cannot Be 'Reassured'] Reference
Known deposit has overburden of 400 metres which limits development possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Higher taxes and more regulations would overburden companies and dampen risk-taking. From Wordnik.com. [BOTTOM LINE ON THE ISSUES] Reference
River banks: A good potter's clay will often be covered by several meters of overburden. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
You can overburden it, which I think is what -- what you're going to get with this program. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2009] Reference
It must be borne in mind that more overburden will have to be removed as the clay winning proceeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
In some cases, the overburden is too thick to be removed, and underground mining must be considered. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
He vetoed funding for a load of water development projects, saying they would overburden federal agencies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference
It's 1,500 feet of overburden and you've got to get that down through the strata and then into the location. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007] Reference
The biggest mistake top students make when entering an elite college is to overburden themselves academically. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Ali Binazir: How to Prevent Your Ivy League Child From Becoming Suicidal] Reference
Governor Pataki, they're working so hard, their teams, but we don't want to overburden an already fragile system. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2001] Reference
LEMON: Yes, Karen, just as you're talking about do it safely and perform properly, not to overburden other systems. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2008] Reference
What it really does is overburden business owners and prices them and their minimum-wage-earning employees out of business. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference
The overburden is removed away from the clay face being worked on, so that no top soil will get mixed with the clay itself. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Mr. Obama says the move would take an in part because of the potential for the pandemic to overburden health care resources. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009] Reference
And when you look at the mine map and you look at the overburden, you know what kind of activity occurs in those mines in Utah. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2007] Reference
Rutherfurd was something more than a mere piece of girlish sentiment; but if she did know, the knowledge did not overburden her. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
HARRIS: So B.J., critics say changing the law would overburden the legal system because so many cases would have to be reviewed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2007] Reference
And the mining method is surface mining, but in the East and other places, it's not economically feasible to take the overburden. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006] Reference
The first derivative cause which we found under this was an accumulation of facts which overburden the mind and destroy its power. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In addition, the field worker must be careful not to overburden the household which may feel obliged to provide these special meals. From Wordnik.com. [2. Gardens and nutrition in drylands] Reference
Americans foolishly send megatons of kitchen garbage to landfills or overburden sewage treatment plants by grinding garbage in a disposal. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
But in fact the fighting between the Lebanese army and Palestinian militants may overburden an already-fragile political system in Lebanon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2007] Reference
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