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 maps, in addition to the general requirements of 30 CFR 211.12(a), shall include the date of extension of the mine workings and a detailed stratigraphic section at intervals specified in the approved resource recovery and protection plan.

• Surface mine permit boundaries were also incorporated to assist in classification.

• 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 operations would include the activities that are needed to operate the surface mine.

More Definitions of Surface mine

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.

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

Surface mine or “surface mining” means all or any part of a process of mining non−ferrous minerals in which the non- ferrous ore lies at or near the surface and can be extracted directly from the land surface if the ore body is exposed or can be accessed from the surface and extracted after removing the overlying layers of overburden and rock.

Surface mine means an area where minerals are extracted by remov-