opencast mining

Since it first started 51 years ago, opencast mining, too, has seen remarkable changes.

You say that we should continue opencast mining in Europe because there is a supply problem.

Opencast mining is still in operation today within the area and the land around the castle has also been subject to this.

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

They switched production technique to opencast mining, and made large profits.

Mines now in operation are better managed under opencast mining as compared to the past.

All the deep coal mines in the area have closed, but opencast mining still continues.

In the 1960s opencast mining took over the surrounding countryside.

To increase wartime coal production, the government introduced opencast mining all over the country.

Extensive opencast mining has taken place in more recent times and still continues in the area.

He made opposition of opencast mining a key element of his campaign.

From about 1954 for several years the area just north of the village as far as the primary school was subject to opencast mining.

The northern portal of the tunnel has been buried by opencast mining activity.

The report defined four situations in which opencast mining could be justified:

They followed the ore veins underground once opencast mining was no longer feasible.

All have had extensive experience of opencast mining both in the UK and overseas.

However, these reserves remain largely untapped as they would need to be obtained by opencast mining.

The opencast mining moved into the fields to the west of the house and continued into the early 1950s.

Opencast mining operated between 1985 and 1995.

They also noted that they saw the potential need to combine underground with opencast mining at the site.

Mineral extraction by quarrying and opencast mining also disturbs sites.

The majority of the line is still open today (datum 2013) for freight trains serving opencast mining sites in the area.

The settlement site was destroyed when around eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining between 1982 and 1996.

There can be no doubt that opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive land uses currently permitted in Wales today.

Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.