Sentences with phrase «large opencast»

Large opencast mines can cover an area of many square kilometres and use very large pieces of equipment, such as draglines, power shovels, large trucks, bucket wheel excavators and conveyors.

I was with thousands of others taking part in an occupation of one of Germany's largest opencast coal mines.

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As well as works by Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Pedro Reyes and Santiago Sierra, the gallery is presenting a special display of the four monumental canvases — North, South, East and West — that comprise Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project series (2012), which were painted in and around the notorious opencast jade mines and the devastated landscapes of a remote area of China's largest, most westerly province of Xinjiang.