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
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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.
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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
Nestled deep in California’s Clark Mountain Range, about 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the massive open-pit Mountain Pass mine is nearly the length of nine football fields.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
And looking straight down: the site of a potential open-pit mine.
—Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
An article on July 11 about environmental concerns associated with open-pit coal mines misattributed the cause, at least in part, of a cutthroat trout dieoff in the Fording River.
—New York Times, 18 July 2023
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
Nestled deep in California’s Clark Mountain Range, about 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the massive open-pit Mountain Pass mine is nearly the length of nine football fields.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
And looking straight down: the site of a potential open-pit mine.
—Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
An article on July 11 about environmental concerns associated with open-pit coal mines misattributed the cause, at least in part, of a cutthroat trout dieoff in the Fording River.
—New York Times, 18 July 2023
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