Sentence examples for mining removal from inspiring English sources

Strip mining, removal of soil and rock (overburden) above a layer or seam (particularly coal), followed by the removal of the exposed mineral.

Bottom trawling is the mountain-top mining removal of our oceans, destroying everything in its path to feed our palates and economies.

Jim Hightower calls the mountaintop mining removal that's destroying the Appalachians "ecocide,...the total annihilation of a priceless ecosystem that is older than the Himalayas".

And speaking of our energy-intenstive way of life... Purple mountain majesties: If our mountains are purple these days, it"s 'cause they've been bruised and battered by mountaintop mining removal, a practice which entails blasting the tops off mountains and dumping the resulting rubble into creeks and streams.

It said he was an expert in land mine removal.

Mr. Halimi, supervisor of a mine removal team from the Halo Trust, a British nonprofit organization, knows just how dangerous.

The administration is proposing a 50percentt jump -- to $70 million -- for land-mine removal aid, mine awareness programs and help to survivors around the world.

Mine removal teams have spent more than two years clearing Kunduz airport of 25,000 antipersonnel mines laid by Russian forces to ward off the Afghan mujahedeen.

With nearly 5,000 deployed around the world, it is a well-regarded source of troops, and is skilled in police training and mine removal.

Clearing those has proved the most difficult and painstaking job the mine removal teams face in Afghanistan, because the smallest movement or vibration can set the bombs off.

A spokesman for the United Nations Mine Action Center for Afghanistan confirmed that the victims were staff workers from the Afghan mine removal agency, Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Reconstruction.