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In the neighborhood there is an old place for strip mining.

The town site was then dug for a strip mine.

The park sits at the top of a former strip mining site and was opened in 2001.

A Government study says they have caused more environmental damage than strip mining.

But the strip mine where he works closed this year, leaving him unemployed.

"If that report had gone through, there would be no strip mining.

In the presence of the strip mined, you can no longer imagine the past.

Well, strip mining was an ugly thing, he had to admit.

The museum is located on the site of a former strip mining operation.

It took me some moments to work out that I was looking at a crude strip mine.

She wrote some songs, including one on the effects of strip mining in Kentucky.

Coal is removed by the open cut or strip mining method.

Now a lake replaces the stop where strip mining occurred.

At a guess, it was a very large and very old strip mine.

Coal for the plant is provided by a large neighboring strip mine.

Then there are the existing coal power plants and strip mines.

This has become even more pronounced with the emergence of strip mining.

They'd strip mine this world to feed the greed of their customers, if they could.

Mountaintop removal, a form of strip mining, is not new either.

Mixed hardwoods cover most of the former strip mine site.

A cookbook, an article about the history of strip mining, whatever."

The 503-hectare rural area was also affected by brown coal strip mining from 1960 to 1972.

So it was more like strip mining than careful, efficient use of a natural resource.

It is the site of an abandoned anthracite strip mine.

Companies had been strip mining Mars, and didn't want the details to come to light.