Crossword clues for opencast
opencast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
opencast
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coal
▪ Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
▪ This is mainly opencast coal and even its continuance is in doubt.
▪ Mr. Walker: In making decisions about opencast coal applications, one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications.
▪ We will reverse the present planning presumption in favour of opencast coal mining and give top priority to local people and their environment.
mining
▪ Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.
▪ Now, all is revealed through Labour's policy decision to ban opencast mining.
▪ Jobs in the opencast sector are at risk from the vendetta against opencast mining conducted by the Labour party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.
▪ Jobs in the opencast sector are at risk from the vendetta against opencast mining conducted by the Labour party.
▪ Mr. Walker: In making decisions about opencast coal applications, one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications.
▪ Now, all is revealed through Labour's policy decision to ban opencast mining.
▪ Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
▪ This is mainly opencast coal and even its continuance is in doubt.
▪ Young is in urgent need of funds after an unexpected shortfall in reserves at its opencast sites.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
opencast
opencast \opencast\ adj. same as opencut.
Syn: opencut, strip(prenominal).
Wiktionary
opencast
a. (context chiefly British English) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
WordNet
opencast
adj. (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface; "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine" [syn: opencut]
Usage examples of "opencast".
Those in favor of dismantling the first bridgehead were called, by someone, Seekers of the Holy Grail, and the name of Grail stuck to that area of opencast mining.
Here and there small factories could be seen, also several quarries and opencast mining sites.