Associations to the word «Opencast»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

OPENCAST, adjective. (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface; "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope