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Mountaintop removal mining

The problems inherent in coal combustion are well known—from the particulates to the acid rain caused by high-sulfur coal, to mercury pollution, as well as the carbon dioxide and mountaintop removal mining. Burning coal in any fashion is a dirty process, and trying to remove the pollutants from flue gases is challenging. [Pg.427]

Mountain top removal (mountaintop removal) A form of surface mining in which the summit... [Pg.796]

Mountaintop ranoval/valley flu coal mining is, as the name implies, the removal of mountain top to recover coal from the seam(s) underneath. In the method, power shovels are used to dig into the soil for trucks to haul away after which a dragline is used to dig into the rock to expose the coal— explosives may also be used to make the overburden more amenable to removal. Other machines scoop out the layers of coal. [Pg.152]

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