Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal...
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Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying...
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Mountaintop Removal is a 2007 documentary film directed by Michael O'Connell. The film explores how mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia has affected...
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change. Some mining methods (lithium mining, phosphate mining, coal mining, mountaintop removal mining, and sand mining) may have such significant environmental...
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mining techniques in the Appalachia include contour, area, high-wall, auger, and mountaintop removal mining (MTR). The damage caused by mountaintop removal...
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Rainforest Action Network due to its funding of companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. The protests included political demonstrations...
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also referred to as open-cast, open-pit, mountaintop removal or strip, mining methods. Opencast coal mining recovers a greater proportion of the coal...
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primary fuel source until the early 1950s. Surface (strip) and mountaintop removal mining overtook underground mines in the 1970s. In 2000, the majority...
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SkyTruth (section Mountaintop Removal Mining)
such as offshore drilling, oil spills, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining, illegal fishing and habitat change detection. SkyTruth releases...
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Mountaintop removal mining All pages with titles containing mountaintop This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mountaintop...
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James Hansen (section Mountaintop removal mining)
obstructing police and impeding traffic, during a protest against mountaintop removal mining in Raleigh County, West Virginia. The protesters intended to enter...
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Ruina montium (category Mining techniques)
dangerous have we made the earth! Hushing Hydraulic mining Las Médulas Mountaintop removal mining Natural History, 33.21. Rossi & Russo 2016, p. 186....
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method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit...
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Mountain Justice (organization) (category Mountaintop removal mining)
movement established in 2005 to raise worldwide awareness of mountaintop removal mining and its effects on the environment and peoples of Appalachia....
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Arch Resources (category Mountaintop removal mining)
Coal practices mountaintop removal mining, which is controversial because it reduces the height of mountaintops. Their West Virginia mining operations in...
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is by actress Lauren Graham. The film is about the impact of mountaintop removal mining on the mountains, environment, and people in the Appalachia area...
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The Last Mountain (category Works about the history of mining)
of mining and burning coal, with a particular focus on the use of a method for coal strip-mining in Appalachia commonly known as mountaintop removal mining...
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change. Some mining methods (lithium mining, phosphate mining, coal mining, mountaintop removal mining, and sand mining) may have such significant environmental...
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safety and health history. Mining has a number of environmental impacts. In the United States, issues like mountaintop removal, and acid mine drainage have...
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Maria Gunnoe (category Mountaintop removal mining)
Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is a native West Virginian who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal. Maria...
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Climate Ground Zero (category Mountaintop removal mining)
February 2009, is a non-violent civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal mining based in the southern coalfields of West Virginia. According to...
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Emily Bernhardt (section Mountaintop coal mining)
studied the impacts of mountaintop removal mining with valley fills (MTMVF) on stream ecosystems. Mountaintop removal mining uses explosives to remove...
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Lithium (redirect from Lithium mining)
resources. In the United States, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining compete with brine extraction mining. Environmental concerns include wildlife...
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Massey Energy (redirect from Black Castle Mining Company)
mining industry regulation by Massey Energy. In June 2009, a Raleigh County judge granted a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists...
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Railway Museum, a museum in Monticello, Illinois, United States Mountaintop removal mining Team Milram (UCI team code), a German pro cycling team XM1111...
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Environmental issues in Appalachia (category Coal mining in Appalachia)
coal production. Mountaintop mining, also called mountaintop removal (MTR), is a form of strip mining and surface mining. This mining process uses explosives...
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His documentary film Black Diamonds (2006), an examination of mountaintop removal mining, has received a number of awards. Pancake grew up in the areas...
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campaign in 2001, bringing dozens of lawsuits targeting mining practices, including mountaintop removal and slurry pond construction, as well as coal-burning...
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projects, and especially mountaintop removal mining (MTR), principally within the United States. This form of surface mining uses millions of tons of...
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Marsh Fork Elementary School (category Mountaintop removal mining)
Located in Rock Creek, Raleigh County, West Virginia, Marsh Fork Elementary School accommodated a student body of around 260 children. It sat 400 yards...
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