Charles Jencks's latest land sculpture is being built on a former open cast mine in Fife.

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Buy it and you make some open-pit mine in Arizona a little deeper.

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

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Toronto's Northland Power wants to convert an old open-pit iron ore mine in Ontario into a waterfall five times the height of Niagara Falls, which could be used to generate power.

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Besides its open pit mine located in Northern Quebec, there is a growing lithium battery industry growing in Montreal.

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Earlier Wednesday, a fifth hole drilled down into the mine found just six inches of open space left between the roof and rubble in an 8-foot-high tunnel, said Jack Kuzar, a district manager with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

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Likewise, mine sits out on the bar and gets used pretty much every time I open a bottle of red wine.

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Serra Pelada, at its peak in the 1980s, saw as many as 80, 000 artisanal miners (called garimpeiros) mine roughly 2 million ounces of gold as well as platinum and palladium from a hand-dug open pit.

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