strip mine

An open mine, especially a coal mine, whose seams or outcrops run close to ground level and are exposed by the removal of topsoil and overburden.

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strip mine

(strĭp)

An open mine, especially a coal mine, whose seams or outcrops run close to ground level and are exposed by the removal of overlying soil.

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Noun	1.	strip mine - an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface mine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
Verb	1.	strip mine - extract (ore) from a strip-mine surface mine, surface-mine mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth mine - get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals"

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So when them boys up there allows that there's a little too much fash'nable society and San Francisco capital and high- falutin' about the future goin' on fer square surface mining, I sez, 'Look yere, gentlemen,' sez I, 'you don't see the pint.

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