Sentences with phrase «massive open pit mine»

The Pebble Mine, designed to be the most massive open pit mine in history, would endanger and compromise these runs, and could destroy them permanently.

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One of the biggest threats today are the open - pit sapphire mines that entice thousands of people from the island and outside of it to dig up the ground in search of their fortunes, resulting in quick and massive forest destruction.

It operates a lot like a 3D open - world action game, but with an important twist: combat sections are actually massive RTS battles, pitting you and your amazing metal - themed units against wonderfully over-the-top enemy factions.

The Elder Scrolls Online is renowned for open world PvP battles, pitting hundreds of players in a massive battle for supremacy in Cyrodiil.

Ride is an Open - world Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) racing game that pits racers and cops against from all over the world each other against each other in one epic online environment.

Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open - pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that «sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world.»

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

Prafulla Samantara, India: An iconic leader of social justice movements in India, Prafulla Samantara led a historic 12 - year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh's land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open - pit aluminum ore mine.

The massive, open - pit mine would destroy 1,660 acres of untouched forestland in order to extract more than 70 million tons of bauxite, polluting critical water sources in the process.