Meanings of open pit lignite mine in English

The plant will be powered by the large lignite mine located outside Ballymoney which is said to guarantee several decades of operation.

Dozens of others have built treehouse camps in the neighbouring forest in an effort to prevent the lignite mine expanding any further.

The symbolic gesture linked two villages earmarked for destruction to make room for the planned expansion of an open cut lignite mine.

Germany's largest climate protest in decades ended on Sunday when police moved in to clear a lignite mine stormed by thousands of climate protestors.

They reveal mine workers, students and jobless people from the Lausitz, a region in the former East Germany with Europe's largest open-cast lignite mine.