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Surface mine definition

Surface mine means any area or areas in close proximity to each other, as determined by the department, where extraction of minerals results in:
Surface mine means a mine where the coal lies at or near the surface and can be extracted by removing the covering layer of soil (see “Overburden”) without tunneling underground.
Surface mine means an area containing an open pit excavation, surface operations incident to an underground mine, or associated activities adjacent to the excavation or surface operations, from which coal or other minerals are produced for sale, exchange, or commercial use; and includes all buildings and equipment above the surface of the ground used in connection with such mining.

Examples of Surface mine in a sentence

  • Surface mine methane emissions occur when the overburden is removed and the seam is broken up by mining.These surface emissions are generally harder to quantify because there is not a measureable point emissions source; in general these emissions are estimates based on in-situ coal content and an assumed fraction being emitted.

  • Surface mine backfill will be exposed along a section of the northern highwall.

  • The Shop, which is composed of a one.story electrical shop building and a one-story automotive repair building, is located approximately eight and one-half miles from the No. 50 Surface mine; five miles from the Morton Mine; and one-half mile from the cleaning plant.

  • Surface mine workers should also receive retirement benefits upon retirement.

  • Any maps submitted to the regulatory authority to be used to monitor subsidence shall also be submitted to the District Mining Supervisor.(c) Surface mine maps.


More Definitions of Surface mine

Surface mine means a mine worked by strip mining, open pit mining or other surface method, including auger mining;
Surface mine means a pit or quarry where metallic or non-metallic rock, mineral bearing substance, earth, clay, sand or gravel is being or has been removed by means of an excavation open to the surface to supply material for construction, industrial or manufacturing purposes and includes any work, undertaking or facility used in connection therewith but does not include a cutting for a right of way for a highway or a railroad; (“mine à ciel ouvert”)
Surface mine means the surface of land upon which activities are conducted which disturb the natural surface of the land and result in the production of ores or miner­als.
Surface mine means all areas surface mined or being surface mined as well as adjacent areas ancillary to the operations, together with preparation and processing plants; storage areas and haulageways, roads, shops and trails; which are covered by the provisions of Chapter 20, Article 6 of the Code and coal prospecting subject to Section 8, Article 6, Chapter 20 of the Code. "Surface Mine" for the purpose of these regulations shall not mean the surface operations connected with an underground coal mine.
Surface mine means a mine where the coal lies at or near the surface and can be extracted by removing the covering layer of soil (see “Overburden”) without tunneling underground. Surface mining can be performed by (i) contour mining, where mining machinery follows the contours of a coal seam or seams around a ridge, excavating the overburden and recovering the coal seam or seams as a contour bench around the ridge is created; (2) highwall mining, where a mining system extracts coal from an exposed highwall; or (3) auger mining, a method of mining coal at a highwall by drilling holes into an exposed coal seam and transporting the coal along an auger bit to the surface.
Surface mine means all areas surface mined
Surface mine means an area where minerals are extracted by remov- ing the overburden lying above and adjacent to natural deposits thereof and mining directly from the natural deposits thereby exposed.