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Strip mining
Cutting deep trenches to remove minerals such as coal and phosphate found near the earth's surface in flat or rolling terrain. See surface mining. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia This article or section does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Wyoming strip mine Surface mining is a type of mining used to extract mineral deposits that are close to the surface. In most forms of surface mining, heavy equipment, such as earthmovers, first remove the overburden - the soil and rock above the deposit. Next, huge machines, such as dragline excavators, extract the mineral. Surface mining generally leaves large devastated areas, called spoil banks, unless the land is reclaimed. Since surface mining removes overlying landscapes, it has a heavy negative effect on local ecosystems and the environment. Surface miners contend that this method is the safest method of extracting ore for miners. Advocates also contend other forms of mining constitue long term safety hazards such as cave-ins. Alaskajournal.com,While residents favor economic development, they don't want coal or strip mining, he added. Buser sees the rail extension as a “long reaching, Phosphate mining deal offers savings and water - Oct 21, 2007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune,That puts Southwest Florida at a crossroads: Does the region allow potentially devastating strip mining on thousands of acres in the Charlotte Harbor US Gold Mining Company Geocom to Strip Mine the Chilean Patagonia - Oct 12, 2007 Bay Area Indymedia,Simply the basic disturbances inherent in strip mining operations, let alone the contamination from toxic chemicals used in Gold mining operations, Strip mining in Appalachia topic of Oct. 25 talk - Oct 8, 2007 Appalachian State University,BOONE—Erik Reece will talk about his book “Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia� Phosphate Mining Compact insane - Oct 12, 2007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune,It seems to be getting worse, not better, by even entertaining the proposed agreement with the strip-mining company. County officials need to get out of Mosaic calls for collaborative relationship - Oct 18, 2007 Charlotte Sun-Herald,The strip-mining company Mosaic argues its proposed offer to take extra steps to protect the Peace River would be "far superior" to the alternative Food, fun, music aid local food pantry - Oct 15, 2007 Canton Daily Ledger,Hart's father and three brothers all worked in the strip mining business. He worked on every possible piece of mining equipment, from scooping coal to the ‘Climb the mountain while it’s still here’ - Oct 18, 2007 Richmond Register,...“Already more than 800 square miles of the southern Appalachian landscape has been destroyed by strip mining,� the photo’s caption read. Making art of 'Industrial Scars' - Oct 19, 2007 CNNAnd he is insistent that naming names -- stating which company owns which mill or strip-mining operation or plastics manufacturing plant -- is Anti-mining champion out of deal - Oct 8, 2007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune,He helped change the way Florida regulates strip mining. But as the fight enters a critical new phase -- Charlotte, Lee and Sarasota counties, Proposal could end fight over mining - Oct 5, 2007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune,Strip mining deprives the Peace River -- a regional drinking water source -- and Charlotte Harbor, a thriving nursery for sea life, of essential fresh-water A surface mine reclamation project in Dante, Va., has received ... - Oct 9, 2007 TriCities.com,The workers also removed tons of trees, soil and rock – known in strip-mining lingo as "overburden" – from the mountainous terrain before they could get to Boone County mountaintop removal project blocked - Oct 12, 2007 Charleston Gazette,...in March that the corps had not fully evaluated potential environmental damage before approving four other strip-mining permits owned by Massey Energy. Time for us to admit to our oil addictions - Oct 10, 2007 The Gateway,What you see is gasoline, but what you pay for is strip mining, polluting refineries, and a kaleidoscope of emissions. There’s also no such thing as gouging Mining compact stirring up dust - Oct 15, 2007 Bradenton Herald,If the Phosphate Mining Compact is accepted in its present form, a decline in water quality is inevitable from the proposed strip mining in the Peace River at loggerheads - Oct 7, 2007 Kentucky.com,After years of arguments, UK agreed in 1991 to allow strip-mining of some of the outlying tracts of the forest. The same year, the university, with the help Appalachian expert decries popular misunderstanding of region - Oct 8, 2007 The Athens News,..."We're strip-mining our culture, we're eradicating this culture, we're erasing some of our history that none of you will ever read in school what I've Activists question motive for logging UK forest - Sep 23, 2007 Kykernel.com (subscription),..."We must assume that the proposed clear-cut is not an alternative to strip mining, but instead is the first step in a business plan that will culminate in Ed Killer: The Blue Auction: Let's do it here - Oct 20, 2007 Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription),...off the northwest coast of Papua, Indonesia, has endured years of blast and cyanide fishing, shark-finning, turtle poaching and nearby strip mining. Mechel OAO: Earnings "Na Zdorovje" Style - Oct 19, 2007 Seeking Alpha,Note: Pictured above is strip mining in Indonesia (not Russia). Correction: MTL is trading at a ttm P/E of 9.8 to 10.8 (previously stated forward) UPDATE 1 - Greens target US banks over coal financing - Oct 2, 2007 ReutersCoal mining, it said, is responsible for thousands of deaths annually, while mountaintop removal mining and strip mining destroy entire ecosystems and Groups protest plant in Wise - Sep 25, 2007 Richmond Times Dispatch,Photo By: CLEMENT BRITT By GREG EDWARDS After coal strip mining began around Kathy Selvage's Wise County home in 2005, early-morning Bible reading on the Digging Into a Coal Controversy - Sep 25, 2007 Washington Post,The jurist, a Gerald Ford appointee and avid bird-watcher, presided over a lawsuit challenging so-called mountaintop removal, a form of strip mining that Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize for climate - Oct 12, 2007 Times Online,Besides his locally well-known pro-tobacco hypocrisy, he is strip mining the land along the Caney Fork River! How can we allow ourselves to be duped like Dear NBC: Sometimes, more is less - Oct 18, 2007 Boston Globe,But I'm certain no one at NBC thinks that strip-mining these series for quickie ratings boosts will ultimately turn them into better shows. Tiny Jewett pins its hopes on coal plant of the future - Oct 7, 2007 Waco Tribune Herald,But Jewett, long home to traditional industries such as strip mining and steel manufacturing, could become the site of a $1.5 billion science experiment A look at historic Cuba to be offered to Scenic Drive visitors - Oct 2, 2007 Canton Daily Ledger,Mining began in the late 1800s and involved both underground shaft mining and strip mining (above ground) operations. The chief industry in Cuba for many Chromite mining: Board opts for more conditions - Oct 3, 2007 Coos Bay World,...“People who work all their lives to live there don’t expect someone to put a strip mining facility in their back yards.� “Nobody on the commission is from Mining company seeks clearance to dig Lake Sebu coal deposits - Sep 30, 2007 Sun.Star,He added the firm plans to dig the resources using the strip mining method, where deposits will be taken and afterwards the hole will be filled again by the The dark human-rights pit where our coal comes from By MIKE MOELLER - Oct 7, 2007 ChronicleHerald.ca,Multi-national strip-mining companies place their industries (the mines) in the "middle" of the local villages and homes, and the communities have little 40th Annual Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive: SOME PAST HIGHTLIGHTS - Oct 6, 2007 Canton Daily Ledger,A side trip to Fiatt to see the Kolbe wheels of the giant strip mining equipment can be taken before travelers go on to Smithfield. Blowing in the mountains ... - Oct 5, 2007 Political Cortex,MTR "has been called strip mining on steroids." MTR is a path for getting at coal veins with the greatest 'efficiency' and cost-effectiveness. Letters From Readers - Oct 4, 2007 Energy Central,Our water and our air are being poisoned by strip mining. Our homes are being blasted apart by the 3 1/2 million pounds of explosives used daily in West Appalachian author criticizes mountain top removal - Oct 11, 2007 NKU The Northerner Online,In Appalachia - which includes Eastern Kentucky and Southern Ohio - coal companies have increasingly turned toward a bizarre form of strip-mining called Boone mine permit wrangling continues - Sep 26, 2007 Charleston Gazette,...that the federal Army Corps of Engineers had not fully evaluated the potential environmental damage before approving four other strip-mining permits. Saving Our Most Important Places - Oct 12, 2007 Realty Times,Today, the ridge, a remote and serene place of hardwood forests and precipitous hillsides, is threatened by strip mining that will obliterate the site of Arch Coal subsidiary sued over damaged house - Sep 22, 2007 Charleston Gazette,Coal-Mac began strip-mining operations near the Maynard family’s newly built house on Cow Creek in August 2006, according to the lawsuit. Fear of another bust wonÂ’t stop oil shale, federal official says - Oct 17, 2007 Grand Junction Sentinel,Earlier Wednesday, Jeremy Boak of the School of Mines said environmental impacts of in situ oil shale development are much less than that of strip mining, Blocking the wind - Oct 17, 2007 Berkshire Eagle,Yes, roads must be built to the turbines planned for Florida and Monroe, but roadwork is less environmentally damaging than strip mining for coal, Opinions nestle among copious goldenrod - Oct 8, 2007 Kentucky.com,The logging is only visible if you take the road that way, and the high wall left from pre-regulated strip mining is partially hidden by pine and hemlock Almost Level, West Virginia: Come See For Yourself! - Oct 5, 2007 It's Getting Hot In Here,One hour south of Charleston, WV, the lovely Coal River Valley is home to wild bears, ginseng hunters, and strip mining. Visit Larry Gibson’s homeplace on The risks are too great to ignore - Oct 15, 2007 News & Observer,The bargain gets better when you factor in the "external" costs of finding and using fossil fuels -- mountaintop removal and strip mining, water pollution, Kennedy addresses environmental issues at Chautauqua - Oct 15, 2007 Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette,Act two days after a judge agreed that the law prohibited coal companies from dumping debris into waterways from mountaintop strip-mining in Appalachia. Armstrong Aviation to close for upgrade - Oct 1, 2007 Leader Times,While the airport closes, a strip-mining operation for coal will take place. The operation is being conducted by State Industries of Armstrong County. How to Cut Your Carbon Paw Print - Sep 29, 2007 NewsweekUse environmentally friendly cat litter, which avoids clay-based litters that are produced through strip mining (learn more at worldwise.com). Dems' Crooks won't run again - Sep 23, 2007 Evansville Courier & Press (subscription),After Crooks helped organize a public meeting that drew hundreds of residents opposed to strip mining at Glendale, the DNR backed down and discontinued The missing conversation on renewable energy - Oct 12, 2007 Tallahassee Democrat,...and the result apparently was the exciting prospect of more oil production, mixing oil with other bio-oil (green washing), strip mining for shale oil in Electronic Arts acquires Bioware and Pandemic - Oct 12, 2007 Boomtown,While EA has suffered criticism in the past for strip mining development acquisitions and destroying their identity - think Westwood for example - things It is not all all about one culture - Oct 10, 2007 Orangeburg Times Democrat,...and when the mines there were exhausted, he brought his family to this country and settled in Indiana, where strip mining for coal was still active. Mine project in Schuylkill wins award - Oct 9, 2007 Allentown Morning Call,The tunnel was built 85 years ago to lower the groundwater level of nearby strip-mining areas, but more recently was responsible for severely debilitating News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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