open-cast

English

Adjective

open-cast (comparative more open-cast, superlative most open-cast)

1. Alternative form of opencast
   • 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China‎^[1], New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 271:

     Altogether there were said to be some 70 construction projects for coal mines, power stations, petroleum refineries, and oil wells in 1953. Of these probably the most important were the two open-cast coal mines at Fou-hsin which resumed production in 1953.