open-pit
adjective
US
: involving the removal of the surface of a large area of land to get at a mineral or other material that is near to the surface
an open-pit mine
Examples of open-pit in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Here, police and security officers from the energy company RWE block activists belonging to the Ende Gelände action alliance, who have entered the Hambach open-pit mine.
—
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
The reports says a new 211-mile road would allow open-pit mines, reduce subsistence access for 66 remote villages, further weaken permafrost, and require thousands of damaging crossings over streams, rivers and wetlands, which could endanger the state's second-largest caribou herd.
—USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
Piedmont’s open-pit lithium mine, similar to a quarry, will be up to 500 feet deep, with blasting once a day, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
Those listed in the database include the assassinations of a Honduran activist who protested an open-pit mine in 2020, a Honduran activist who was fighting a new dam on the Ulua River in 2021, and an activist in Cuernavaca, Mexico, who had led protests over inadequate water service.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Chingola is home to one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world, which is a series of workings that stretch for more than 6.2 miles.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
The dispute over the open-pit mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years, including a blockade of the mine’s power plant, according to the AP.
—Elida Moreno, Valentine Hilaire, and Divya Rajagopal, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
At the site of a new wind farm close to the world’s largest open-pit gold mine, workers were in the process of installing a fourth turbine recently, and there were at least 107 more to go.
—Max Bearak Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Enormous open-pit mines worked by tens of thousands of miners form vast craters in the landscape and are slowly erasing the city itself.
—Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
The reports says a new 211-mile road would allow open-pit mines, reduce subsistence access for 66 remote villages, further weaken permafrost, and require thousands of damaging crossings over streams, rivers and wetlands, which could endanger the state's second-largest caribou herd.
—USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
Piedmont’s open-pit lithium mine, similar to a quarry, will be up to 500 feet deep, with blasting once a day, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
Those listed in the database include the assassinations of a Honduran activist who protested an open-pit mine in 2020, a Honduran activist who was fighting a new dam on the Ulua River in 2021, and an activist in Cuernavaca, Mexico, who had led protests over inadequate water service.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Chingola is home to one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world, which is a series of workings that stretch for more than 6.2 miles.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
The dispute over the open-pit mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years, including a blockade of the mine’s power plant, according to the AP.
—Elida Moreno, Valentine Hilaire, and Divya Rajagopal, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
At the site of a new wind farm close to the world’s largest open-pit gold mine, workers were in the process of installing a fourth turbine recently, and there were at least 107 more to go.
—Max Bearak Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Enormous open-pit mines worked by tens of thousands of miners form vast craters in the landscape and are slowly erasing the city itself.
—Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'open-pit.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near open-pit
Cite this Entry
“Open-pit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-pit. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share