open-cast

A form of opencast — Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed

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Meanings

adjectiveopen-cast (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of opencast.

    Open-cast mining began in the area early in the sixteenth century, and there were numerous unsuccessful attempts to work the deposits, notably those by the Countess of Sutherland in 1598, and John Williams, the geologist, in 1764.

    1960 January 28, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 55
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    Altogether there were said to be some 70 construction projects for coal mines, power stations, petroleum refineries, and oil wells in 1953. Of these probably the most important were the two open-cast coal mines at Fou-hsin which resumed production in 1953.

    1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 271
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