opencast
IPA: ˈoʊpʌnkæst
adjective
- (chiefly Britain) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
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Examples of "opencast" in Sentences
- Goals of the Opencast Community are described in the.
- It's also the world's largest opencast ilmenite mine.
- All the deep coal mines are now closed, but opencast continues.
- The reason for the closure was the opencast mine at Garzweiler II.
- In the 1960s opencast mining took over the surrounding countryside.
- An opencast mine was also located on the mountainside above the village.
- The park is unusual for the area as it was previously as an opencast mine.
- The coal is provided by a small number of opencast mines in Northumberland.
- The largest opencast amethyst vein in the world is in Maissau, Lower Austria.
- Crossgates has a long history of mining, of both deep and opencast varieties.
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