surface mining in a sentence

Examples

1. The clay is excavated using surface mining techniques.
2. Underground mining has environmental advantages over surface mining because it tears up less of the landscape.
3. Limited surface mining resumed in the late 2000s.
4. Pupation takes place in a separate, lower-surface mine.
5. Archeologists who have surveyed the mountain say it contains a number of ancient Indian surface mines.
6. North Antelope Rochelle is a surface mine.
7. They are too deep to surface mine.
8. The Railroad Commission also regulates surface mining.
9. It is threatened by surface mining activities.
10. The director of the Office of Surface Mining, Robert Uram, was sympathetic once the misunderstanding became clear.