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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

("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...

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...

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...

Open-Pit (Spanish: Cielo abierto) is a 2023 Peruvian-French experimental docudrama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by Felipe Esparza...

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...

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...

Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying...

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...

Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

decoration and its properties. Aquamarine is mainly extracted through open-pit mining, however underground mining is also a possibility to access aquamarine...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...