Definition of opencast in English:

opencast

adjective ˈəʊp(ə)nkɑːstˈoʊpənˌkæst

British

Denoting a method of mining in which coal or ore is extracted at or from a level near the earth's surface, rather than from shafts.
opencast mining
North American term open-pit
Example sentencesExamples
- At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland.
- Mining mostly took place in opencast workings, and primitive methods involving hand sorting and sieving were used to refine the fibre.
- Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry.
- However, with prices rising to £50 a ton Scottish Coal, Scotland's biggest producer, has decided to open and extend opencast mines in east Ayrshire, south Lanarkshire, the Lothians and Fife.
- This is particularly relevant in the West Gower section where there are no modern mines or opencast sites.
- Exploration for hydrocarbons has resulted in drilling to basement in many basins and, where coal seams occur close to the surface, opencast mining has exposed the strata.
- Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire.
- The two main methods of extraction are opencast mining and underground mining.
- Kay said this habitat would be ‘menaced’ by the construction of a multi-lane coastal road and large-scale opencast pits.
- However, there was also an opencast coal site on the outskirts of Chorley, which was a focus for picketing.
- Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River.
- Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal.
- It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps.
- Residents are claiming victory today after controversial plans for opencast mining near three quiet Yorkshire villages were thrown out.
- Local miners who picketed divided their time between different Lancashire collieries and the local opencast site, as directed by the NUM.
- Furthermore, most of the research and development conducted during the previous 20 years that has borne any fruit has been focused on opencast mining and metallurgy.
- The project envisages over 400 opencast mines in an area collectively estimated to be home to around 1,500 tigers - one quarter of the entire global population.
- The NUM picket failed to shut down the opencast site, though the picket continued throughout most of the remaining period of the strike.
- The 1990s in Britain were marked by large and dramatic public protests against a government-sponsored programme of road building, and a private sector-led expansion of opencast quarrying.
- Earthwatch's ‘Cradle for Nature’ project was designed to develop a green way of using trees to create new soils on barren wasteland left behind after opencast mining.

noun ˈəʊp(ə)nkɑːst

mass nounBritish

The activity of opencast mining.
communities facing the destruction of their countryside by opencast
Example sentencesExamples
- Workers at the company's Westport's Stockton Mine, Huntly, the Ohai opencast in Southland and Rotowaro in the Waikato joined the strike.
- We are virtually surrounded by opencast and landfill with the promise of another 30 years of the same.

Definition of opencast in US English:

opencast

adjectiveˈōpənˌkastˈoʊpənˌkæst

British

Denoting a method of mining in which coal or ore is extracted at or from a level near the earth's surface, rather than from underground workings; open-pit.
opencast mining
Example sentencesExamples
- Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River.
- This is particularly relevant in the West Gower section where there are no modern mines or opencast sites.
- Kay said this habitat would be ‘menaced’ by the construction of a multi-lane coastal road and large-scale opencast pits.
- Furthermore, most of the research and development conducted during the previous 20 years that has borne any fruit has been focused on opencast mining and metallurgy.
- Earthwatch's ‘Cradle for Nature’ project was designed to develop a green way of using trees to create new soils on barren wasteland left behind after opencast mining.
- The two main methods of extraction are opencast mining and underground mining.
- The project envisages over 400 opencast mines in an area collectively estimated to be home to around 1,500 tigers - one quarter of the entire global population.
- However, with prices rising to £50 a ton Scottish Coal, Scotland's biggest producer, has decided to open and extend opencast mines in east Ayrshire, south Lanarkshire, the Lothians and Fife.
- Local miners who picketed divided their time between different Lancashire collieries and the local opencast site, as directed by the NUM.
- Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire.
- Exploration for hydrocarbons has resulted in drilling to basement in many basins and, where coal seams occur close to the surface, opencast mining has exposed the strata.
- The NUM picket failed to shut down the opencast site, though the picket continued throughout most of the remaining period of the strike.
- At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland.
- However, there was also an opencast coal site on the outskirts of Chorley, which was a focus for picketing.
- It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps.
- Residents are claiming victory today after controversial plans for opencast mining near three quiet Yorkshire villages were thrown out.
- The 1990s in Britain were marked by large and dramatic public protests against a government-sponsored programme of road building, and a private sector-led expansion of opencast quarrying.
- Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal.
- Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry.
- Mining mostly took place in opencast workings, and primitive methods involving hand sorting and sieving were used to refine the fibre.

单词	opencast
释义	Definition of opencast in English: opencast adjective ˈəʊp(ə)nkɑːstˈoʊpənˌkæst British Denoting a method of mining in which coal or ore is extracted at or from a level near the earth's surface, rather than from shafts. opencast mining North American term open-pit Example sentencesExamples At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland. Mining mostly took place in opencast workings, and primitive methods involving hand sorting and sieving were used to refine the fibre. Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry. However, with prices rising to £50 a ton Scottish Coal, Scotland's biggest producer, has decided to open and extend opencast mines in east Ayrshire, south Lanarkshire, the Lothians and Fife. This is particularly relevant in the West Gower section where there are no modern mines or opencast sites. Exploration for hydrocarbons has resulted in drilling to basement in many basins and, where coal seams occur close to the surface, opencast mining has exposed the strata. Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire. The two main methods of extraction are opencast mining and underground mining. Kay said this habitat would be ‘menaced’ by the construction of a multi-lane coastal road and large-scale opencast pits. However, there was also an opencast coal site on the outskirts of Chorley, which was a focus for picketing. Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River. Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal. It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps. Residents are claiming victory today after controversial plans for opencast mining near three quiet Yorkshire villages were thrown out. Local miners who picketed divided their time between different Lancashire collieries and the local opencast site, as directed by the NUM. Furthermore, most of the research and development conducted during the previous 20 years that has borne any fruit has been focused on opencast mining and metallurgy. The project envisages over 400 opencast mines in an area collectively estimated to be home to around 1,500 tigers - one quarter of the entire global population. The NUM picket failed to shut down the opencast site, though the picket continued throughout most of the remaining period of the strike. The 1990s in Britain were marked by large and dramatic public protests against a government-sponsored programme of road building, and a private sector-led expansion of opencast quarrying. Earthwatch's ‘Cradle for Nature’ project was designed to develop a green way of using trees to create new soils on barren wasteland left behind after opencast mining. noun ˈəʊp(ə)nkɑːst mass nounBritish The activity of opencast mining. communities facing the destruction of their countryside by opencast Example sentencesExamples Workers at the company's Westport's Stockton Mine, Huntly, the Ohai opencast in Southland and Rotowaro in the Waikato joined the strike. We are virtually surrounded by opencast and landfill with the promise of another 30 years of the same. Definition of opencast in US English: opencast adjectiveˈōpənˌkastˈoʊpənˌkæst British Denoting a method of mining in which coal or ore is extracted at or from a level near the earth's surface, rather than from underground workings; open-pit. opencast mining Example sentencesExamples Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River. This is particularly relevant in the West Gower section where there are no modern mines or opencast sites. Kay said this habitat would be ‘menaced’ by the construction of a multi-lane coastal road and large-scale opencast pits. Furthermore, most of the research and development conducted during the previous 20 years that has borne any fruit has been focused on opencast mining and metallurgy. Earthwatch's ‘Cradle for Nature’ project was designed to develop a green way of using trees to create new soils on barren wasteland left behind after opencast mining. The two main methods of extraction are opencast mining and underground mining. The project envisages over 400 opencast mines in an area collectively estimated to be home to around 1,500 tigers - one quarter of the entire global population. However, with prices rising to £50 a ton Scottish Coal, Scotland's biggest producer, has decided to open and extend opencast mines in east Ayrshire, south Lanarkshire, the Lothians and Fife. Local miners who picketed divided their time between different Lancashire collieries and the local opencast site, as directed by the NUM. Plans are in the pipeline to transform the vast opencast mine near the village with one of the biggest housing projects in South Yorkshire. Exploration for hydrocarbons has resulted in drilling to basement in many basins and, where coal seams occur close to the surface, opencast mining has exposed the strata. The NUM picket failed to shut down the opencast site, though the picket continued throughout most of the remaining period of the strike. At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland. However, there was also an opencast coal site on the outskirts of Chorley, which was a focus for picketing. It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps. Residents are claiming victory today after controversial plans for opencast mining near three quiet Yorkshire villages were thrown out. The 1990s in Britain were marked by large and dramatic public protests against a government-sponsored programme of road building, and a private sector-led expansion of opencast quarrying. Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal. Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry. Mining mostly took place in opencast workings, and primitive methods involving hand sorting and sieving were used to refine the fibre.
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