Bisbee: Lavender Pit
The Lavender Pit, a former open-pit copper mine, Bisbee, Ariz.
surface mining
- Related Topics:
- placer mining
- strip mining
- auger mining
- open-pit mining
- highwall mining
surface mining, method of extracting minerals near the surface of the Earth. The three most common types of surface mining are open-pit mining, strip mining, and quarrying. See also mining and coal mining.