Once we've got the open-cast finished, that will be tremendous there. 50-plus, many of those have never had a job since.

BBC: News Online

There is no road, the works have all gone, there is an open-cast mine, and there is a free mountain to boot.

BBC: News Online

Indigenous groups from the Amazon region have marched for 700km (430 miles) to protest against plans for an open-cast copper mine in their region.

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The open-cast Chuncheng No. 2 mine near their village, along with dozens of other mines in Xilin Gol, was ordered to close, at least temporarily.

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The 1, 000-acre site has lain derelict since open-cast mining ended.

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Charles Kernot, the mining analyst at Paribas in London, predicts that British production, which was 31m tonnes this year, will level off to 6m-10m tonnes by 2010, most of it from open-cast mines.

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Strip-mining, a form of open cast mining, has devastated whole sections of this landscape.

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Android was cast out because the operating systems is open-source and used across a number of manufacturers that ICE feared could lead to modifications to accommodate new features.

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