mountaintop removal mining
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form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- surface mining
- Has part
- deforestation
- Location
- summit
- Image
- Mountaintop removal mine in Pike County, Kentucky.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mountaintop removal mining
- uses
- excavator
- start time
- 1960-00-00
- present in work
- Gray Mountain
- significant place
- Appalachian Mountains
- significant environmental impact
- nutrient pollution
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