Question: Surface Mining

Answer: Is where materials lying over a deposit are removed to expose the resources for processing

Question: Overburden

Answer: Soil and rock overlying a useful mineral deposit that is removed

Question: Spoils

Answer: Piles of waste created from removing overburden

Question: Open-pit mining

Answer: Is where machines dig very large holes a remove metal ores as well as sand, gravel and stone

Question: Strip mining

Answer: Is a tactic that is useful and economical for extracting mineral deposits that lie in large horizontal beds close to the Earth’s surface