Do you know what Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining is ?

Question

I just found out about this and would like know,Am I the only person that didn't know about this? I read about it at a site called ILoveMountains.com 3 days ago, I'm appalled by it!

They dig down 1000 ft,dumping rubble into the valleys, clear cut the forest,and dynamite the whole top of the mtn OFF

Answer 1

"Do you know what Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining is ?"

Is it coal mining by removing mountain tops? I think it probably is.

Answer 2

In mountaintop removal mining, the targeted land is clear-cut of all trees, which are usually sold to timber companies. The topsoil is removed and set aside for later reclamation. Miners then use explosives to remove the overburden (the rock and subsoil that lies above a coal seam), exposing the coal. The overburden is pushed into a nearby valley or hollow, creating a pile below called valley fill. A dragline excavator removes the coal, and it is transported to a processing plant and washed. Millions of gallons of waste from coal processing, called slurry, is often stored nearby in open pools restrained by earthen dams. Upon completion of coal removal from a mountain, the mining operator replaces soil on the stripped site and seeds it for revegetation.

Because coal usually exists in multiple seams separated by rock, miners can repeat the blasting process to mine over a dozen seams on a single mountain, lowering the mountain's height each time, sometimes hundreds of feet.[2] Kentucky, Wyoming and West Virginia, the three leading coal-producing states in Appalachia, each use more than 1000 tons of high explosives per day for surface mining.[3]

Answer 3

Instead of digging tunnels, if the coal is not too deep, it is more cost effective to remove the upper layers of soil and dig the coal with bulldozers.
The same is true for an iron-ore mountain near the Orinoco river(called "Cerro Bolivar") in Venezuela.

Answer 4

Open cast mining perhaps?

Huge diggers, like huge tractors with a digging bucket, remove the layers of coal near the surface.

This is so much cheaper then digging deep shafts to reach seams of coal underground.

Answer 5

no longer something is completely scarred. it extremely is yet another bogus line from environmentalist. Nature will restoration something guy can do. So this is in simple terms yet another lie from communities that choose for to renounce all progression by employing guy and pass us back into the stone age.

Answer 6

Yeah we invade mountains and foreign governments, Civilization rocks.