Sentence examples for open mines from inspiring English sources

This year, in August, a ballot initiative before state voters would have made it more difficult to open mines that could damage salmon streams.

Developers hope to open mines in Canada, South Africa and Australia, but all are years from large-scale production and will produce sizable quantities of light rare earths.

Among the horrors: shifting mountains of uranium tailings; open mines leaching contaminated rain into drinking water tables; wind-blown radioactive dust; home construction from uranium mine slabs; and even the grim spectacle of children playing in radioactive swimming holes and ground pits.

Downloadable here, the lyrics make a direct connection between environmental abuse and social unrest: "We have grazed animals here thousands of years...How many people are coming here to open mines and plunder our resources...Our home is being devastated..The green grasslands are turning yellow".

–Arcelor-Mittal, an important customer for Brazilian ore, plans to open mines of its own in the country.

Despite moves by the industry to decrease the footprint of open mines while extracting oil sands deeper underground, some claim the newer methods produce even more CO2 gases.

I think I'm going to have to open mine up again, and take a look inside those bags.

Out of the domestic production, 85% is from open mining, and the remaining is from underground mining.

Open image in new window Fig. 5 Result of monitoring of landslide displacement field at Fushun west open mine.

In 1913, the company started preliminary work to open Mine 2a.

"The effects of open mining have all been negative for us," he said.