Indeed, many of them have got new jobs at drift or open-cast mines in the area.

He turned to go, facing the giant open-cast mine on the dark hillside.

Twenty years ago, when I worked in mining, that was an operating open-cast mine.

During the 20th century, there were several open-cast mines in the region, many of which are being converted to use as lakes.

It was formerly a coal mining town but today only one open-cast mine remains.

Some opponents say the open-cast mine will cause environmental damage; others are concerned about plans to bring in up to 3,000 mainly Chinese workers.

An open-cast mine is seen at the top, and the plant is in the foreground.

His open-cast mines were operated on the most modern system in his time.

Early examples include 16th century maps showing open-cast mines.

He didn't know if it was some kind of meteorite scar or an open-cast mine kilometers wide.

It is also called an open-cut or open-cast mine.

Opponents say building the open-cast mine would damage ancient monuments in the area and destroy a mountain face.

Roy manages a nearby private open-cast mine run by a development company with plans to revitalize the region.

It is a lignite mine, and therefore an open-cast mine.

Open-cast mines are dug on benches, which describe vertical levels of the hole.

It has numbers of underground and open-cast mines.

Now they face the prospect of a 700-hectare open-cast mine in their holiest place," Amnesty said.

It now looked like an open-cast mine.

A beauty spot earmarked as an open-cast mine has earned a reprieve.

Until about 1960 there was an open-cast mine on the Sudmerberg in a small sandstone quarry.

Bauxite is usually extracted through open-cast mines, which leave vast scars on the landscape.

Through rain-streaked glass to the right he could see a giant open-cast mine lit by dotted lights.

It crashed into an open-cast mine, littering the area with mangled, burning fragments.

It was a thriving goldmining community at the turn of the 19th century and today there is still the large working open-cast mine in Waihi.

In the valley there was once a limy open-cast mine, therefore a lake and a cave cropped up.

Her father worked in the open-pit mines during the day and for the union at night.

Up until then, it was one of the world's largest open-pit mines.

Looking down from the upper benches of the Clinton open-pit mine.

A large open-pit mine was proposed in 2007 near the western boundary of the park.

The large open-pit mine is north of the town.

At the same year, the Küttejõu open-pit mine was opened.

The cap rock would have to be stripped to develop an open-pit mine.

An almost moon- like landscape with its big mountains and the biggest open-pit mine in the world.

Mining started at the open-pit mine in 1892 after the construction of a railway.

A Canadian company attempted an open-pit mine, but abandoned the project around 2007.

Her organisation was protesting about the impact the open-pit mine would have on local people and biodiversity.

There is an open-pit mine located near the river that employs a number of residents.

Tracks were laid through the open-pit mine, with the length varying.

An open-pit mine can contaminate water in several ways.

There was nothing in that direction but the vast bulwark of the open-pit mine.

In the early 21st century, it is among the largest open-pit mines in the world.

It is an open-pit mine located at altitude of about 4000 meters above sea level.

Production began in 1960 from underground and open-pit mines.

Blasting Technique to break ore in an underground or open-pit mine.

This style is called an open-pit mine, yet it's in this small mountain.

The former townsite is now a large open-pit mine.

There is an open-pit mine to the north.

The company is developing 11 open-pit mines, producing over 100 varieties of clay.

This open-pit mine was known for its gold.

A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted.

The park is unusual for the area as it was previously an opencast mine.

He turned to go, facing the giant opencast mine on the dark hillside.

Now all is revealed through Labour's policy decision to ban opencast mines.

Coal is produced from four underground and 21 opencast mines.

After the opencast mine closed, the M1 motorway was constructed over the west of the parish.

An opencast mine was also located on the mountainside above the village.

In 2006 plans for an opencast mine on the outskirts of the town were put forward, although many people objected to it.

The average life of an opencast mine was around 18 months, after which time the land was restored to its former use.

This supply was supplemented by coal from local opencast mines.

The coal is provided by a small number of opencast mines in Northumberland.

Coal from the local opencast mines is brought to the station by road using heavy goods vehicles.

We both went through the transmitter to the room that opens on the frozen planet where the opencast mine is.

Foreign companies moved in, opencast mines proliferated, and the population of the town quadrupled to 200,000.

At present there are five working mines three underground and two opencast mines.

Ffoss Las is the deepest opencast mine going to a depth of 650 feet.

This was an opencast mine, a great sunken pit of broken stone and heaped gravel.

When the bitumen is close to the surface it is excavated in an opencast mine.

This technique was best performed in opencast mines where the smoke and fumes could dissipate safely.

The town was built especially for miners houses, but was entirely removed in the 1980s to make way for a large opencast mine.

Bukuru is also associated with the opencast mine workings are exploitable deposits of kaolin.

NCL produces coal through mechanised opencast mines but its commitments towards environmental protection is total.

It is used on heavy coal block trains between the opencast mines at Profen and the Schkopau power plant.

The Margam line is now used by the new Parc Slip opencast mine for coal.

Total Underground Mines are 70 and total Opencast mines are 21.

The area was developed from a former opencast mine and a sand and gravel quarry and was opened to the public in 1985.