NOUN
- an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface
VERB
- extract (ore) from a strip-mine
How To Use strip mine In A Sentence
- Similarly, driving a haul truck in a big strip mine in Wyomings Powder River basin is no more dangerous than any other job involving heavy machinery. A Conversation with Jeff Goodell about Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind Americas Energy Future
- Railroad tracks lead away from all the strip mines.
- I think the family must have told him they were going ahead with the moly strip mine deal, and to hell with him. THE FALLEN MAN
- Forests, fields, orchards, fencerows, hedgerows, islands, railroad tracks, floodplains and grown-over strip mines are just some of the places the white and giant morels can be found.
- Hawking's main concern was that a fleet of alien spacecraft could turn up wanting to strip mine the Earth for its bountiful resources.
- With self - organization neutral net, the main strip mines are classed on their natural endowment superiority.
- In strip mine spoils in southeastern Ohio, values may be as low as pH 2.0.
- Ah this is an ancient script that came from a limited group of Pleiadians that came to earth to strip mine her of all gold; and created a slave civilization to do so.
