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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
There is plenty of room for that, as there is for the reduction of opencast mining. Three million tons would be put into stock and 3 million tons would not be obtained by running down opencast coal production. Who was the principal protagonist of opencast coal mining in those days? On the matter of opencast mining, there has already been a rundown. In the same period seven opencast licensed sites produced 29,000 tons; employment at these sites is not known. They must be balanced against a continuance of opencast coal mining. Moreover, it would help to obviate the problem of unemployment among opencast mine workers. There are now 40,000 acres of good land being used for opencast mining. There will be a reduction of 4 million tons in opencast, and about 7 million tons in deepmined, output. But to do away with opencast mining is to get rid of one of the cheaper forms of getting coal. Much has been said about opencast coal mining. It is sometimes claimed that opencast mining is bad for agriculture because of the effect upon the land. The wages would not have been there but for the profits made in opencast mining. I myself have seen places where opencast operations have taken place and the land afterwards restored. We have heard a great deal about opencast coal mining recently and a lot about the attitude of the mineworkers' union. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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