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Bisbee: Lavender Pit
The Lavender Pit, a former open-pit copper mine, Bisbee, Ariz.
surface mining
surface mining, method of extracting minerals near the surface of the Earth. The three most common types of surface mining are open-pit mining, strip mining, and quarrying. See also mining and coal mining.
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