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What does opencast mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chiefly Britain) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
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Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire.
In New Caledonia, Le Nickel-SLN opencast mines nickel oxide deposits formed by superficial weathering of ultrabasic rocks.
Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River.
The NUM picket failed to shut down the opencast site, though the picket continued throughout most of the remaining period of the strike.
We are virtually surrounded by opencast and landfill with the promise of another 30 years of the same.
In order to advance operations at the opencast mine, vegetation that includes koala habitat must be cleared.

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