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Many coal mines are opencast surface operations, as opposed to deep underground gold mines.
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Our view is that it is not an appropriate place for an opencast coal mine.
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The group has won an appeal against a proposed opencast coal mine on the West Coast.
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Photograph: Jonathan Watts for the Guardian The vast opencast pit at Tevan Tolgoi is just the start.
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An opencast land and an overcast sky.
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A former opencast coal mine that has been reclaimed by nature could be destroyed by redevelopment, campaigners fear.
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The Green Party is welcoming a compensation package for Waihi residents affected by opencast mining adjacent to their town.
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They are now employed to mine the iron ore in the opencast mines & have given up tilling fields.
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Forest and Bird has won an appeal against the development of an opencast coal mine on the West Coast.
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The then local MP, Labour's David Taylor, had introduced his own parliamentary bill to toughen planning regulations for opencast mining.
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One option would be to turn Pike River into an opencast coal pit, which could potentially stretch into Paparoa National Park.
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An earlier version said that the opencast coal mine stretched 85 kilometres wide and 400 metres deep.
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Vashkevich is currently using this Belaz 75710 to move waste rock at an opencast coal mine in the Kuzbass region of Russia.
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A hundred miners are losing their jobs as the country's largest opencast coal mine axes more than a quarter of its workforce.
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Forest and Bird has won an appeal against the development of an opencast coal mine on the West Coast of the South Island.
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Not until opencast (strip) mining began in the second half of the twentieth century did the tonnage produced per miner really begin to rise steeply.