Peak Downs is a large, open-cut mining operation, which was developed in the early 1970s.

Employment is centered mainly on the open-cut gold mine near the settlement.

Church Avenue is an open-cut express station with short tunnels at each end to carry the line between cross streets.

After 1994, underground mining ceased and the area was operated as an open-cut coal mine.

The area also has numerous open-cut mining operations.

The coal for Collinsville comes from local open-cut mines.

Workers simply moved the displaced sludge and re-dumped it into the open-cut pit.

The town's economy is based around farming and forestry, although a large open-cut mine has operated directly adjacent to the town since 1988.

Alcoa of Australia operate a power station and open-cut coalmine in the town.

Railroad transportation played a very important part in the new mining method, which is called open-cut mining.

Slope stability is a critical safety and production issue for open-cut mines around the world to understand the probability of mine wall failures.

The open-cut mine uses the terrace mining technique supported by a truck and shovel fleet.

However, expansion of the adjacent open-cut brown coal mine led to the closure and removal of the town in the 1980s.

Open-cut mining is more damaging to the environment but infinitely safer than digging mine shafts below the surface.

Fuel is transported via conveyor belt from the open-cut Commodore Mine.

Mining recommenced in 1986, initially as open-cut mining, before moving to underground mines.

The town's economy remains reliant of gold mining, with numerous shafts, an open-cut mine and processing facilities.

In the post-war period, many trains carrying spoil from open-cut lignite mines operated over the line.

The open-cut Copper Mine, easily seen to the north of the city, is one of the 10-largest copper mines in the world.

The fire threatened the Loy Yang Power Station, particularly the station's open-cut coal mine.

On 10 October 2011, Federal Government approval for the mine expansion, which would have made it the world's largest open-cut mine, was given.

Currently, there is one underground operation (Koala) with open-cut mining occurring in Fox Pit.

The Musonoi mine is a set of open-cut pits near Kolwezi from which copper and other metals have been extracted since the 1940s.

The expansion involves diversion of the river to a new 5.5 km channel, to allow construction of a massive open-cut pit in the existing river.

On 3 May 2007, the Northern Territory government rushed through retrospective legislation to overrule the court decision and allow the open-cut mine to proceed.