0 a method of obtaining substances such as coal from the ground that involves removing the top layer of soil instead of digging deep holes underground
They thought that strip mining of that energy source would be profitable.
We all know that strip mining is so much cheaper than deep mining.
They call it strip mining; we call it opencast.
He was known as the strip mining king in open-cast mining—the quick easy-to-get stuff, fast turnover, into the wagon, onto the market and into the bank.
In 1950, the operation converted to strip mining and became the world's largest open pit coal mine.
Other coal companies followed with deep mine shafts sunk north and south of town, which, by the 1950s, had given way to strip mining.
Coal mining, including strip mining, was common in the watershed throughout the 1800s and 1900s.
Strip mining operations began in the 1950s and 1960s, with some of the deep mines and surface mines being remined in the 1980s.
