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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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    as open-cast, open-pit, mountaintop removal or strip, mining methods. Opencast coal mining recovers a greater proportion of the coal deposit than underground...
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    Opencast (formerly known as Opencast Matterhorn) is a free, open-source software for automated video capture, processing, managing, and distribution, mainly...
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    isolated opencast pit carved in the side of the hill north of the main site. The larger aqueduct from the Cothi crosses this opencast, proving the opencast to...
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  • major opencast coal mine operates. The largest mine is Aberpergwm, which is a drift mine. For example, in January 2024 the production of all opencast mines...
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    Cypress Mine The Cypress Mine is an extension to the open-cast coal mine the Stockton Mine’s operational area, to the east into the Upper Waimangaroa Mining...
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    designation of five overburden conveyor bridges used in brown coal (lignite) opencast mining in the Lusatian coalfields in Germany. They were built by the former...
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    side of the isolated opencast north of the main mine. It was presumably built to prospect the ground to one side of the opencast for traces of the gold-bearing...
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    Transylvania were also very large, and until very recently,[when?] still mined by opencast methods. They also exploited smaller deposits in Britain, such as placer...
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    January 2013. Diahot River at the Encyclopædia Britannica "The impacts of opencast mining in New Caledonia". The United Nations University. Archived from...
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    Open cast mining began west of Huntly during World War 2, and later an opencast mine at Kimihia. This was the last mine operating in Huntly (off Riverview...
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  • about environmental topics, protecting and reviving rivers and preventing opencast mining in areas that are well-endowed with biodiversity. It also directs...
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    on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2018. "Minorca Opencast Protest Group". Minorca Opencast Protest Group. Archived from the original on 23 February...
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    remove overburden at various mines around the UK, lastly at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, until the River Aire burst its banks and flooded...
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    Jhunjhunu, and zinc mines at Dariba, Zawar mines and Rampura Agucha (opencast) near Bhilwara. Dimensional stone mining is also undertaken in Rajasthan...
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    men and boys. Redeveloped by the National Coal Board in the 1960s as an opencast mine, the site enveloped the entire working of the former colliery, eventually...
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    Measham Museum. In 2011 UK Coal received planning permission to develop an opencast coal mine on the site of the former Minorca colliery on the outskirts of...
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    limited to surface mining. They followed the ore veins underground once opencast mining was no longer feasible. At Dolaucothi they stoped out the veins...
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    Design Institute Ltd. conducted a detailed survey of the area. The Rajmahal Opencast Coal mine project was conceived in early 1980s, initially to supply coal...
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    1991. In 1995, British Coal Opencast was authorised to remove the spoil tip of the former colliery and conduct opencast coal mining on a site totalling...
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  • Solid Energy bought Newvale Coal Co Limited and acquired the Newvale opencast mine, located in the Waimumu coal field in Southland. The Newvale mine...
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    colliery, Ellington, which closed in January 2005. In 2006 plans for an opencast mine on the outskirts of the town were put forward, although many people...
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    along with other activists by German police while demonstrating at the opencast coal mine of Garzweiler 2, around 9 km from the village on 17 January,...
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    minerals List of rock types List of stones Miner Mountaintop removal mining Opencast mining Quarry lake Quarries (biblical) "Law Document English View". Ontario...
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  • held by Ministry of Coal. SCCL is currently operating 40 mines where 18 opencast and 22 underground mines in 6 districts of Telangana (restwhile 4 districts...
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    lagoon Looking from Cairnmount across the old opencast site with the 'bowl' in the foreground The old opencast site looking towards the Montgomery Park housing...
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    of India. It annually produces about 30 million tonnes of lignite from opencast mines at Neyveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India and at Barsingsar...
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    Stockton Mine, on the Stockton Coal Field, is New Zealand's largest opencast mining operation. The entrance to the mine is at the former settlement of...
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    mining except a few blocks in eastern part of these coalfields which have opencast potential. Jhilimili Coalfield located in Surguja district is spread over...
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    Courant 10 January 2014 'Villagers admit defeat after 15 years battling opencast' "Major Hexham employer Egger UK". Chroniclelive.co.uk. 4 February 2018...
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