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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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    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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    Teghut Mine is a closed copper and molybdenum open-pit mine in Armenia's northern province of Lori in the village of Teghut with deposits valued at US$15...
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    Fairbanks mining district of Alaska Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine – largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota Lavender Pit – copper...
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  • perform, with dependencies between pairs of tasks, one example being in open pit mining. The maximum-weight closure of a given graph G is the same as the complement...
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    Copper company shifted to open-pit mining in the mid-twentieth century. Over several decades, mining took place at the Berkeley Pit before operations were...
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    its properties. Aquamarine is mainly extracted through open-pit mining, however underground mining is also a possibility to access aquamarine reserves....
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    When open pit mining operations began in July 1955, near the Berkeley Mine shaft, the older mine gave its name to the pit. The open-pit style of mining superseded...
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    mines in the world, and returned a good profit mining ore with less than two percent copper. Mining by open-pit model using large-scale mechanization was copied...
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    Maharashtra to allow open-pit mining in the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg corridor of the Western Ghats. Abdulali and others argued that such mining would have a disruptive...
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    more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt...
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    Nevada's gold production comes from large open pit mining using heap leaching recovery. The Nevada mining industry supported an average 14,787 direct...
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    common methods of zinc mining are open pit mining, open stope, and cut and fill mining: Open-pit mining: Surface mining involves the removal of waste rock...
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    A bell pit is a primitive method of mining coal, iron ore, or other minerals lying near the surface. A shaft is sunk to reach the mineral which is excavated...
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    large open-pit coal mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite...
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  • Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom ended in November 2023. Each open-pit coal mine usually lasted four or five years at extraction rates of up...
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    control theory, instrumentation surface mining; open-pit mining underground mining (soft rock) underground mining (hard rock) computing; DATAMINE, MATLAB...
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    production) or by conventional underground or open-pit mining of ores (43% of production). During in-situ mining, a leaching solution is pumped down drill...
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    Bucket-wheel excavator (category Mining equipment)
    machine used in surface mining. Their primary function is that of a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations, removing thousands...
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    subsequently found in surface exposures at the site of the current open pit. Mining commenced on the deposit in 1967, and production has been continuous...
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    The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, is an open-pit mine in Australia. It was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until 2016...
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    spreader is to act as a continuous spreading machine in large-scale open pit mining operations. A Spreader's superstructure may be seen as superficially...
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  • Bangladesh, fought against the use of open-pit mining from August 26, 2006, to February 6, 2014. Open pit mining would displace thousands of people, as...
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  • There are several versions of the D475A that are used in surface mining, open-pit mining, quarries and construction worldwide. The 740 horsepower (550 kW)...
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    the coal using open-cut, also referred to as open-cast, open-pit, mountaintop removal or strip, mining methods. Opencast coal mining recovers a greater...
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    materials from an open pit in the ground; quarrying, identical to open-pit mining except that it refers to sand, stone and clay; strip mining, which consists...
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    The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation....
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    families. The mine was developed using open-pit mining for the first 200 feet, then resorted to underground mining methods.: 90, 101  After the Great Porcupine...
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  • probable reserves. Previous operations at the LaRonde complex used open-pit mining methods. Presently, operations are primarily underground. The mine's...
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    Placer mining (/ˈplæsər/) is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit mining or by various surface excavating equipment...
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