31.   They cook their beef over open pits, with a pot of beans on the side.

32.   This will be used to produce nickel more cheaply from an open pit rather than by using traditional mining and refining methods.

33.   This had resulted in a higher proportion of lower grade open pit ore being treated.

34.   Until this year, veterinarians in Texas were only permitted to burn infected cattle in commercial incinerators, not open pits.

35.   We only had an hour left to make our fortune when we arrived at the big open pit whose perfect quartz crystals went into thousands of radios.

36.   An avalanche buried five children who were skiing in an open pit mine in Siberia, killing them all, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Saturday.

37.   As the Cold War nuclear arms race heated up, mining companies dug hundreds of shafts and open pits in the area to extract the valuable and deadly mineral.

38.   But police failed to hold back crowds flocking to the open pit mine in support of the strikers.

39.   Chitalu said Anglo American is among six foreign companies bidding for five underground mines, one open pit mine and other facilities.

40.   Coal still is mined by stripping away vast stretches of farmland and forest, digging out open pits and leaving sterile moonscapes.