"Strip mining" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sight of home, the time-eaten hull of an ancient star freighter resting near the top of a heap of junked equipment from some old strip mining operation. It would never rise again, but its shell remained strong enough to shelter my distillery and scant furnishings from any ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns
... throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand are resulting in habitat loss and declining biodiversity (in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries); deforestation; soil erosion; in rural areas, ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. |
