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In the neighborhood there is an old place for strip mining.

So it was more like strip mining than careful, efficient use of a natural resource.

About 100 years ago, strip mining took place just west of Annawan.

Now a lake replaces the stop where strip mining occurred.

If that report had gone through, there would be no strip mining.

Mountaintop removal, a form of strip mining, is not new either.

Some of the parkland was stripped off in the past by strip mining.

Well, strip mining was an ugly thing, he had to admit.

This has become even more pronounced with the emergence of strip mining.

A Government study says they have caused more environmental damage than strip mining.