Glossary · term
Open pit
Mining & Metallurgy
- Aliases
- open-pit, opencast, strip mining
- Domain
- Mining & Metallurgy
Definition
Mining from the surface down in benches, moving the overburden aside. Cheap per tonne, so it wins for low-grade ore; the deepest is over a kilometre.
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