Sentence examples for mine the surface from inspiring English sources

In the Wuyang coal mine, the surface soil layer is very thin or thinned out and the slope of the surface basin is steeply inclined.

When water is present, as is always the case in an underground coal mine, the surface can rapidly become coated with an opaque layer of mud that completely obscures the instrument's field of view (Fig. 3).

As there are farmlands and villages on the surface of the mine, the surface deformation should be controlled when the ore is mined out for the purpose of stope stability and minimizing surface subsidence.

During mining and 3 months after mining the surface soil bulk density there were changes in the presence of different vegetation types, with increases being observed in S. psammophila and P. simonii areas, and decreases in A. ordosica plots.

Besides mine drainage, the surface runoff from uncovered mining and milling waste piles was also a mechanism for the dispersal of dissolved radionuclides and contaminated materials in the environment.

Temperature and humidity differences between the depths of the mine and the surface meant pneumonia and respiratory infections were rife, with one mining boss noting: "If 20 healthy Indians enter on Monday, half may emerge crippled on Saturday".

With a long-handled trowel he learned to nudge a buried mine to the surface and then, carefully, to remove its blasting cap.

We separated the coal produced in each region into the proportion mined underground and the proportion mined at the surface, using EIA's factsheet on coal production in the United States.

GROUP THREE: Surface Coal Mining Questions to consider: -Under what circumstances is coal mined at the surface rather than underground?

Small-time local miners, little more than licensed freelancers prospecting by hand, were disappointed to find that most of the mines near the surface had been exhausted.

Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife is revived at Salisbury Playhouse by Philip Wilson, a director with a knack for mining beneath the surface.