Usually means: Surface mining method, extracting minerals.
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  1. opencast: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opencast: Merriam-Webster
  3. opencast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opencast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opencast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opencast, opencast: Wordnik
  7. opencast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opencast: Wiktionary
  9. opencast: Dictionary.com
  10. Opencast (Software), Opencast (software), Opencast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. opencast: Rhymezone
  12. opencast: FreeDictionary.org
  13. opencast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. opencast: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (chiefly British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed

Similar:
strip, surface, opencut, open-cast, cut-and-cover, mullocky, effodient, slash and burn, slash-and-burn, trenching, more...

Types:
quarry, mine, more...

Phrases:
opencast mining, opencast mine, more...

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Similar:
strip, surface, opencut, open-cast, cut-and-cover, mullocky, effodient, slash and burn, slash-and-burn, trenching, more...

Types:
quarry, mine, more...

Phrases:
opencast mining, opencast mine, more...



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