Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying...
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Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that...
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investment requirements. Surface mining and deep underground mining are the two basic methods of mining. The choice of mining method depends primarily...
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Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamation Association, 452 U.S. 264 (1981), is a United States Supreme Court case that unanimously held that the...
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engineering; control theory, instrumentation surface mining; open-pit mining underground mining (soft rock) underground mining (hard rock) computing; DATAMINE, MATLAB...
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Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal...
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biodiversity, or the contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by chemicals emitted from mining processes. These processes also affect the atmosphere...
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Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals...
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The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is a branch of the United States Department of the Interior. It is the federal agency...
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Joy Global (redirect from Joy Mining Machinery)
extraction and haulage of coal and minerals in both underground and surface mining. The company had manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Pennsylvania,...
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Mine reclamation (redirect from Post-mining)
remediation. As part of the life cycle of a surface coal mine, completed mine areas must undergo rehabilitation. When mining ends, operators must restore the land...
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The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation....
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while hydraulic mining was at its height, small-scale placer mining had largely exhausted the rich surface placers, and the mining industry turned to...
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earth materials removed during an excavation process. In surface mining (commonly called strip mining) for coal or other underground deposits, earth materials...
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Room and pillar mining can be advantageous because it reduces the risk of surface subsidence compared to other underground mining techniques. It is...
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birth defect rates are higher in the areas surrounding surface mining locations. Coal mining production in Appalachia declined from 1990 to 2015, but...
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EPS Surface Mining Kosovo (Serbian: ЕПС Површински копови Косово) is a Serbian coal surface mining company with headquarters in Obilić, Kosovo. EPS Surface...
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Placer mining (/ˈplæsər/) is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit mining or by various surface excavating equipment...
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The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the...
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Quarry (category Surface mining)
Quartz Sandstone Slate Travertine Stone quarry is an outdated term for mining construction rocks (limestone, marble, granite, sandstone, etc.). There...
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Oil sands (section Surface mining)
the surface as in Canada, meaning none of it can be produced using surface mining. The Canadian deposits will almost all have to be produced by mining or...
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Mining in ancient Rome utilized hydraulic mining and shaft mining techniques in combination with equipment such as the Archimedes screw. The materials...
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Athabasca oil sands (section Surface mining)
Sands by surface mining. In the Athabasca sands there are very large amounts of bitumen covered by little overburden, making surface mining the most efficient...
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Sand mining is the extraction of sand, mainly through an open pit (or sand pit)[failed verification] but sometimes mined from beaches and inland dunes...
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University and SkyTruth to study the longterm environmental footprint of surface mining and mountaintop removal in Appalachia. The study was published in July...
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Health and environmental impact of the coal industry (redirect from Environmental impact of coal mining and burning)
underground mining has given up market share to surface mining.[citation needed] Underground mining hazards include suffocation, gas poisoning, roof...
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mines in operation, such as the Hambach surface mine. Limburg was a coal-mining region until 1973; See mining in Limburg Silesia in Poland and Czech Republic...
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vast labyrinth of galleries more than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) below the surface. Mining techniques there had been changed 20 years before the 1958 bump, from...
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require that land that is surface mined must be restored to its original productivity once mining is complete. Strip mining of lignite in the United States...
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agricultural machinery designed to spread manure Spreader (mining), a heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering All pages...
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