surface mine

1. 1.

   extract (ore) from a strip-mine

   Synonymsstrip minesurface-mine

   Broadermine

   mining

Questions about surface mine

What does surface mine mean?

surface mine means "extract (ore) from a strip-mine".

What is another word for surface mine?

Close synonyms include strip mine, surface-mine. 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 surface mine a common word?

surface mine 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.