Category
page 1Surface mining
quarry
thumb|Carrara marble|A quarry at Carrara in [[Tuscany, Italy]]
thumb|A Portland stone quarry on the [[Isle of Portland, England]]
thumb|An abandoned construction aggregate quarry near [[Adelaide, South Australia]]
thumb|An abandoned construction aggregate quarry with turquoise pond near [[Thouars, France]]
thumb|right|An abandoned stone quarry in Kerala, India
thumb|Stone quarry in Soignies, [[Hainaut (province), Belgium]]
thumb|Matera quarry in [[Basilicata, Italy]]
thumb|Donnerkuhle Quarry, near Hagen, Germany
thumb|Prospect Hill (New South Wales)|Prospect Quarry gap in [[Sydney, Australia]]
spoil tip
pile built of accumulated spoil
bucket-wheel excavator
continuous digging machine used especially in large-scale open-pit mining
surface mining
broad category of mining
gravel pit
open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel
hydraulic mining
mining technique using high-pressure jets of water to carve away minerals
sand mining
practice that is used to extract sand
clay pit
open-pit mining for the extraction of clay minerals
placer mining
technique of mining stream bed deposits for minerals
landfill mining
excavating and processing solid wastes from landfills
Stripping ratio
Visitor mine F60
type of overburden conveyor bridges
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