overburden removal
1Mountaintop removal mining — Mountaintop removal site Mountaintop removal in Martin County, Kentucky M …
2coal mining — Coal was very important in the economic development of Britain. It was used as fuel in the factories built during the Industrial Revolution and continued to be important until the 1980s. The main coalfields are in north east England, the north… …
3Coal companies of Australia — Contents 1 Anglo Coal Australia Ltd 1.1 Anglo Coal Callide Mine 1.2 Anglo Coal Capcoal Mine …
4Cerrejón — Trucks loaded with coal at The Cerrejon. Cerrejón is a coal mine located in the Guajira department in the north of Colombia. It is the largest mining operation in Colombia and among the largest open pit coal mines in the world. The legal entity… …
5Construction aggregate — Limestone quarry …
6Вскрышные работы — (a. stripping overburden removal; н. Abraumarbeiten; ф. travaux de deblayement, decouverte; и. desmonte) удаление горн. пород, покрывающих п. и., при открытой разработке м ний. B. p. включают процессы подготовки скальных пород к выемке,… …
7sulfate minerals — Minerals containing the SO42– radical, formed by precipitation from water. The most common are the anhydrous and hydrated calcium sulfates, anhydrite (CaSO4) and gypsum (CaSO4●2H2O). Sulfates are deposited as a generally minor component of… …
8Coal mining — Men leaving a UK colliery at the close of a shift Surface coal mining in Wyo …
9Surface mining — is a type of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed. It is the opposite of underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral removed through shafts or tunnels. Surface mining is… …
10mining — /muy ning/, n. 1. the act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines. 2. the laying of explosive mines. [1250 1300; ME: undermining (walls in an attack); see MINE2, ING1] * * * I Excavation of materials from the Earth s… …
