How to Use open-pit in a Sentence

open-pit

adjective

• As proposed, the open-pit mine would be one of the world’s largest.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
• And looking straight down: the site of a potential open-pit mine.
  — Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• The open-pit mine was set to be located about 6 miles from the Great Barrier Reef.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• Teck’s open-pit mines produce more than 21 million metric tons of coal a year.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Chingola is home to one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world, which is a series of workings that stretch for more than 6.2 miles.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Chuquicamata, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, a hole big enough to swallow Central Park, is nine miles north of the city.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• At the site of a new wind farm close to the world’s largest open-pit gold mine, workers were in the process of installing a fourth turbine recently, and there were at least 107 more to go.
  — Max Bearak Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Enormous open-pit mines worked by tens of thousands of miners form vast craters in the landscape and are slowly erasing the city itself.
  — Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• The dispute over the open-pit mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years, including a blockade of the mine’s power plant, according to the AP.
  — Elida Moreno, Valentine Hilaire, and Divya Rajagopal, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
• Rare earth minerals are extracted through one of two methods: Drilling or open-pit mining.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
• Opponents say the plans for a large open-pit mine will destroy fisheries worth about $2 billion annually.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
• Any sand not clean enough for use on the beach would remain at El Corazon, where it could be buried or used in the ongoing efforts to reclaim the property from its decades of use as an open-pit silica mine.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
• That last deployment—a six-month rotation in 2020—sent him to the outskirts of a small city in Niger where an American military installation sat just a few hundred yards downwind from the largest open-pit uranium mine in the world.
  — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Piedmont’s open-pit lithium mine, similar to a quarry, will be up to 500 feet deep, with blasting once a day, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
  — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
• An article on July 11 about environmental concerns associated with open-pit coal mines misattributed the cause, at least in part, of a cutthroat trout dieoff in the Fording River.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024