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What does highwall mean?

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Noun
  1. (mining) The unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
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The 2010 drilling program for Vista includes geotechnical core holes at two points along the projected ultimate highwall for open pit mining.
Depending on the equipment available, it may not be technically feasible to exceed a certain height of highwall.
As yet, the dollars are relatively small, but the opportunities loom large, as Sarasota's Highwall Technologies will attest.
The company began mining coal at the site on May 8, 2000, and is currently nearing completion of construction and final testing of its highwall miner.
Tenders are invited for Introduction of Highwall Mining Technology at Nimcha Block and Sripur Block of ECL on hiring basis.
I really don't want to be labeled a protectionist, but I think there is a happy medium between raw free marketeering and highwall protectionism.

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