Opencast workings or opencuts are surface excavations in which the overburden is stripped by hand or mechanical excavators, thereby laying bare the mineral, which is afterwards broken and loaded ...

Plaid Cymru - would oppose any new opencast developments in Wales. They want to see all Wales' energy needs met through renewables by 2035. Greens - oppose development of opencast mines in Wales.

Proposals for a huge new opencast coal mine in Midlothian have been given the go-ahead. The plans will see 10 million tonnes of coal excavated over 10 years at the 500-acre Cauldhall site near ...

Climate activists have set up camp alongside the UK's largest opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil. Campaign group Reclaim the Power say they will attempt to halt operations at the Ffos-y-Fran site on ...

On-site nitrogen generator supplier NitraLife has supplied numerous opencast mines across Southern Africa with nitrogen generators, and has noticed increased nitrogen use to inflate large off-the ...

Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is finalising the permitting process for the future opencast Middelaagte mine, one of three areas of the ...

Plans for an opencast mine near Kirkconnel in Dumfries and Galloway have been withdrawn due to the "challenging economic climate". It had been hoped the Rigg North scheme could provide 30 jobs ...

Opencast mine that has been almost six years in the planning for the Neath Valley is refused The plans to extract coal and sandstone from Unity Mine at Bryncwm, near Cwmgrach, were submitted to ...

German energy company RWE announced it completed a 3.2 MW agrivoltaic project on a 7-hectare recultivation area on the edge of the Garzweiler opencast mine near Bedburg, a town in the Rhein-Erft ...