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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other ways outside of burn pits to dispose of nonhazardous solid waste: incinerators, burial, landfills, and tactical burial. Open-air burning is a way to...
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This is a list of open-pit mines. Cerro Vanguardia Mine – gold and silver mine located near Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz Pascua Lama – binational gold...
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The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, is an open-pit mine in Australia. It was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until 2016...
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Hambach surface mine (redirect from Hambach open pit mine)
The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and...
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Garzweiler surface mine (redirect from Garzweiler open pit mine)
("Street of energy") Ende Gelände 2015 Ende Gelände 2019 Inden open pit mine [de] Hambach open pit mine Rhenish lignite mining area [de] List of lignite mines...
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The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile...
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Coal mining (redirect from Open-pit coal mine)
surface, it may be economical to extract the coal using open-cut, also referred to as open-cast, open-pit, mountaintop removal or strip, mining methods. Opencast...
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Open-Pit (Spanish: Cielo abierto) is a 2023 Peruvian-French experimental docudrama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by Felipe Esparza...
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A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally...
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Look up PIT, pit, or pits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pit or PIT may refer to: Ball pit, a recreation structure Casino pit, the part of a casino...
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Surface mining (section Open-pit mining)
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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in 2019, which was Photoshopped onto a stock photo of the Big Hole, an open pit mine in Kimberley, South Africa. The resulting image was then stylized...
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Bingham Canyon Mine (redirect from Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine)
Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of...
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The Lavender Pit is a former open pit copper mine near Bisbee in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is located near the famous Copper Queen Mine...
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Karowe diamond mine is a mine located in Botswana. It is an open-pit mine. In 2021, Lucara Diamond secured $220 million to take the mine underground. The...
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Butte, Montana (section Open-pit mining era)
excavate the Berkeley Pit, which Anaconda Copper opened in 1954. When it opened, the Berkeley Pit was the largest truck-operated open pit copper mine in the...
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Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, is the largest operating open-pit iron mine in Minnesota. The pit stretches more...
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built and maintained, pit latrines can decrease the spread of disease by reducing the amount of human feces in the environment from open defecation. This decreases...
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mining include: open-pit mining, which is the recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground; quarrying, identical to open-pit mining except that...
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Copper company shifted to open-pit mining in the mid-twentieth century. Over several decades, mining took place at the Berkeley Pit before operations were...
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floor where this takes place is called a pit. In an open outcry auction, bids and offers must be made out in the open market, giving all participants a chance...
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Teghut Mine is a closed copper and molybdenum open-pit mine in Armenia's northern province of Lori in the village of Teghut with deposits valued at US$15...
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decoration and its properties. Aquamarine is mainly extracted through open-pit mining, however underground mining is also a possibility to access aquamarine...
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more than 30 billion tonnes (33 billion short tons) of 52–66% Fe. The open pit method is used to mine this ore at the Stoylenskoye, Lebedinskoye, and...
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Harmony Gold (mining) (section Kalgold open pit)
underground mines, one open-pit mine and several surface operations in South Africa. In Papua New Guinea, it has Hidden Valley, an open-pit gold and silver mine...
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where topaz is sourced are Brazil and Russia. Topaz is often mined in open pit or alluvial settings. The word "topaz" is usually believed to be derived...
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Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom is in decline, and is planned to end in November 2023. Output has fallen every year since 2010. In 2010, the...
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Track day (section Open pit lane events)
secure with their abilities and the track environment they can progress to "Open-Pit Lane" events (more common with car track days rather than bike days). These...
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