- 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...
- 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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since December 2023 -with the
closure of Ffos-y-fran- no
opencast coal mine operates, and
opencast production is zero
according to the UK Coal Authority...
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larger aqueduct was constructed.
Prospecting was
successful and
several opencasts are
visible below the
large tanks built along its length. The only exception...
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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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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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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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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...
- ore an
expensive proposition compared to
typical ironstone or
haematite opencasts. The
recovered ore also has drawbacks. The
carbonate ore is more difficult...
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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...