and iron as well as non-metallic ores like coal, uranium, and phosphate. Open-pit mining is also known as open-cast mining, open-cut mining, and mega-mining. Environmentally, open-pit mining is ...

With strip mining, trees are the first to go. Then, hundreds of feet of rock may be blasted away from the tops or sides of mountains to get at underground seams of coal. “If you get an area that ...

The Australian government on Wednesday turned down a proposal for a new open-cut coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, invoking environmental laws and the risk of “irreversible damage.” The ...

“The mine is an open cut coal mine less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Great Barrier Reef and the risk of pollution and irreversible damage to the Reef is very real.” Coal is Australia ...

More information: Jakob Borchardt et al, Insights into Elevated Methane Emissions from an Australian Open-Cut Coal Mine Using Two Independent Airborne Techniques, Environmental Science ...

A digger has rolled at a Bowen Basin mine. This comes eight months after strengthened safety amendments within the coal mining industry ... 16 at the BMA-operated open cut mine.

The Westmoreland Coal Co. said it will cut ... coal mining in about 40 counties, according to the Railroad Commission. The only bigger coal mines than Jewett in Texas are the Kosse Strip and ...

A study published today in Environmental Science and Technology Letters found that methane emissions from an open-cut coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin were up to eight times higher than the ...

Australia’s open cut coal mines could be emitting more than ... verify satellite data and provide more rigorous scrutiny of coal mine owners’ emissions disclosures. Methane is the second ...

Alliance Coal to open underground mine portal in rural Henderson County, hire 260 workers and transfer some from River View Mine in Union County ...