He was safely out of the mine strip.

Ming and Gary repainted the Porter at the mine strip.

The site was surrounded by two wire fences, both electrified, separated by a mine strip.

Usually, the process is to drill the strip of overburden next to the previously mined strip.

Each year, mining strips 28 billion tonnes of materials from the earth, and creates 2.7 billion tonnes of waste.

This region of rolling green hills dotted with mine strips and small villages maintained its modern mix of suburban-country living as pumps and drills came off the interstate through Somerset on giant trucks.

These days, West 64th and 65th Streets between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is more suggestive of a dusty mining strip than the desirable Upper West Side.

Supporters of the generals have long argued that the Soviet Union was responsible for the harsh border controls that confronted would-be fugitives to the West, including mined strips, fortifications, dog patrols, barbed wire and armed guards.