A dragline operates at a mountaintop mining site in Mingo County. Mountaintop mining completely removes all of the overburden that covers a seam of coal, yielding a 100 percent recovery rate. Movement of the dirt on a site is carefully coordinated, not performed in a willy-nilly fashion. Miners try not to move a section of dirt more than one time.
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