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Definition of Strip mining
1. Noun. The mining of ore or coal from an open mine.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strip Mining
Literary usage of Strip mining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beauty of the Lord: Awakening the Senses by Richard Cartwright Austin (1988)
"A seventy-year-old Ruling Elder in one church apologized to me for his current
preoccupation with the "worldly" struggle against strip mining. ..."
2. Southern Appalachians: A History of the Landscape by Susan Yarnell (1999)
"As strip mining became more prevalent through the sixties and seventies, controversy
over the practice also grew. Court actions between the USDA Forest ..."
3. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"Some church members joined a successful effort to obtain a state law regulating
strip- mining, but after the law was passed the state government was too ..."
4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1919)
"strip mining strip mining Where Bad Roof Prevails (85752). Ralph W. Mayer. 2500 w.
Cl Age—April 20, 1918. Coal in Pittsburgh region being recovered ..."
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