strip mining

1. 1.

   the mining of ore or coal from an open mine

   Synonymsopencast mining

   Broadermining

Questions about strip mining

What does strip mining mean?

strip mining means "the mining of ore or coal from an open mine".

What is another word for strip mining?

Close synonyms include opencast mining. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strip mining a common word?

strip mining is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.